Yes, I am aware of that article. That's why I have discounted this German issue. However, I'm beginning to thing that Meshach's wife may have been German. A large number of Germans were living in NC in the same area as these Inmans and at the same period of time. Perhaps that's where this German question is coming from. Meshach's sons, Lazarus and Samuel, were tiny when he died. They would have had few, if any, memories of him. However, if his mother came from the German community, perhaps they assumed that their father came from that community also??? Just a thought--something I hope to explore tomorrow when I go to the library. Meshach's wife has never been identified. Barbara -----Original Message----- From: JIMWELCK@aol.com <JIMWELCK@aol.com> To: bibeall@email.msn.com <bibeall@email.msn.com> Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 9:53 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Genealogical Studies--Meshach Inman Origin >Have you seen a copy of "Over the Misty Blue Hills (The Story of Cocke County >Tennessee)There is an section about the Inman Family pages 101 and 102 >""Prior to Revolutionary way 1775, three iInman brothers, Shadrach, Meshach >and Abednego, left their home in England , tradition claims, on account of a >step-mother. They came to America, settled in Virginia, thence to N.C. >afterwards to Tennessee. In 1767 these three brothers joined a party of >hunters bed by Daniel Boone, to explore the country west of the Cumberland >Mountains. Meshadh was killed by Indians near Nick Jack cave. Shadrach was >wounded by a spear (this weapon is still in possession of his descendants). >Abednego was wounded in the forehead by a tomahawk. He hid in a hollow tree >where he lived nine days without food."" >There is still a large number of Inman still in Cocke County Tenn. > >The Welcker are from the marage of Elizabeth Inman the daughter of Shadrach >the son of John and Henrietta Hardin Iman his wife was Mary McPheeter. Her >mather was Mary Jane McDowell, sister of Gov. John McDowell of N> Carolina. > >Jim Welcker > >