This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Humphreys, Truitt, Butler, Hannah, Laird ,Turner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4436.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi. George Elmer Humphreys was my Great uncle. He moved to OR. I have been trying to find the connection between the TN Humphreys and my Humprheys for a while. It always seemed so odd that they wound up In Linton at the same time. My GGrandparents William and Clarissa Lotz Humphreys originated in VA. moved to OH, and then on to IN. I know that the TN Humprheys also came from VA. There is a story in the family, "two brothers came to the Ohio River, and one went north, the other went south" However, no proof. I have some history of land transactions in TN for the Humprheys, along with some relationship discussions, and also the info regarding the ancestors of a Robert Elllis. In this, they have Martha Ellis married to Hawkins Humpreys and listed Hawkins as a son of my William and Clarissa. Of course, not true. By the way, do you know that the Rectors are descendants of the first German colony (1714) in VA......called Germanna?