Hi group! Here is my "brick wall" person: Josephine JONES is my brick wall. My mother told me that she was originally from North Carolina, was half Cherokee and that she smoked a clay pipe with an Indian face scratched on the front of the bowl. She also told me that "Gran" CATHEY, as she was called, died when my mother, Maudie MCNEELY was 12 years old. My mother was born on March 14, 1917 so the year of Josie's death would have been 1929 or 1930, if my mother recalled correctly. Here is what I know about her: She had a brother named Arch JONES Josephine JONES (b: ~1831 in NC; d: ~1929 in Marshall County, KY) who married George H. CATHEY, a.k.a.: Buck CATHEY (b: ~1839; d: ~1869 In Maury County/Williamson?, TN), they had a son: William Henry CATHEY (b: 10/12/1861; d: 6/6/1936 in Paducah, KY) who married Sarah Jane FILBECK (b: 9/21/1861 in TN; d: 9/20/1937 in Paducah, KY) who was from TN and was the daughter of John William FILBECKand Elizabeth GIBBS. After George CATHEY died in 1869, Josephine married George's brother, John A. CATHEY (b: ~1838 d: ?) John CATHEY is listed as this woman's father with Josephine JONES as her mother on her death certificate: Ellen Gertrude MATHIS (b:12/29/1872; d: 6/12/1949 in Marshall County, KY) According to this man's birthdate and George H. CATHEY'S date of death, he would had to have been the son of John A. CATHEY and Josephine JONES: Jasper CATHEY (b: 9/15/1870; d: 12/10/1919) Josephine JONES had another child with one of these men, but I have no date of birth to figure out which man was her father: Matt (CATHEY) MILLER - a daughter There was another child of John A. CATHEY, that was not a child of Josephine JONES and that was: Tom CATHEY family surnames: JONES*CATHEY*FILBECK*GIBBS*MILLER*MATHIS*MCNEELY*EAGLE*GINN I hope this information is useful to someone and I have my fingers crossed that someone else may have some information that will help me fill in some blanks. Thanks for any help! Nancy