Lou, Yes, they did. Nancy Catherine Lawson was born in 1852 in Monroe Co., In. and moved to Greene Co., when she married Lewis Newton Michael. Just after 1880 they came to Clay City where they lived until she died in 1918. Newt died in Terre Haute in 1947. I have found records which indicate that her brother Gabriel Lawson was here too, but I think he was moving in and out. Several of his children married in Clay County in the 1880's. Gabriel was living in Clay City in 1920. He died that year. I think her brother Willis was here too, but there was an older Willis who was one of Andrew Lawson and Martha Jennings descendents. Gabe's sons Alexander and Lewis C. Lawson were also in Clay County. Cath and Gabe were the children of Amos Lawson and Rebecca Aynes who came to Monroe County from Claiborne Co., Tn. This has been a confusing family to research, because the Lawson's have all used the same given names, generation after generation. We had always known about the Indian blood in my family. It is only recently that I had heard the term Melungeon applied to us. Maybe it can help others who are having dificulty with their famly research. It isn't easy for some folks to accept the tri racial or bi racial facts that apply to the Melungeon people. There were Melungeon people in the New Orleans area too. Mary On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:44:34 EDT LouPero@aol.com writes: >Mary, did your Lawsons come to Clay Co? > >I would be interested in hearing from anyone whose family came to Clay >Co >from Pulaski Co KY, which I am told is in Melungeon "territory." > > >==== INCLAY Mailing List ==== >Visit the Clay County Indiana InGenWeb site at; >http://www.rootsweb.com/~inclay/ >