Does anyone have any information on the following families? They show up in Scott County, Arkansas sometime between 1850-1860. Here are the relevant census enumerations: (1) 1860 Washburn TWP, Scott Co. John BARNARD 49 m w SC Cada 32 f w SC L. M. STATON 11 f w TN Mary P. JOHNSON 55 f w SC (2) 1870 Washburn Twp, Scott Co., PO Chismville Joshua BEARD 52 m w TN Farming---/$200 Cada 42 f w SC Alsby BARNARD 9 m w AR John M. BARNARD 7 m w AR Mary JOHNSON 66 f w SC I believe the L. M. STATON listed on the 1860 census is actually my g-g-grandmother Larcenia Miranda BARNARD. Cada BARNARD is probably her mother and Mary P. JOHNSON her grandmother. Cada apparently was married in Tennessee to a man named STATON before marrying (?) John BARNARD. By 1870 it appears she has remarried yet again, this time to Joshua BEARD. I am particularly interested in finding out who the father of L. M. STATON was and who the family/parents of Martha P. Johnson were. My reason for believing that L. M. STATON is my g-g-grandmother's REAL maiden name, is that according to multiple, independent family sources, her name was Larcenia Miranda BARNARD, but until this breakthrough I have had absolutely no luck tracking her family down. I know she married my g-g-grandfather Martin COUGHRAN, CSA, immediately after the Civil War and they lived in Scott County, Washburn TWP and then in Logan County from about 1866 to 1885--when this part of Logan Co was formed from Scott Co--and then they moved to the Canadian District, Cherokee Nation around 1885. From Indian Territory and OK State censuses I find that she was born May 1848 somewhere in Tennessee. The fact that L. M. STATON is not on the 1870 census is also relevant; she was proabably married by then. Based on this purely circumstantial evidence, I am inclined to believe that L. M. STATON must have been Larcenia Miranda BARNARD. It would seem that she took the BARNARD surname from her stepfather. Was she actually adopted? Also, to add to the confusing mix, according to family oral tradition, this branch of my family may have been all or part Cherokee. This may explain Cada going through three husbands between 1850-70 as it is well known that Cherokee women traditionally had great latitude in matters of divorce (it was a matrilineal society.) In a similar vein could John BARNARD actually be an uncle-- a brother of Mary JOHNSON, perhaps? Lastly, from the 1865 AR Tax List, I learn that Cada also went by the name Caty. Does anyone know if her given name was Catherine? Thanks for any help in unraveling this puzzle.