This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/437.475.478.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Susie, I have nothing before 1850 Fentress Co., census and the assumption that a James C. McFarland is Richard Crabtree's father....I do have family group sheets on his children [sent to me by Jean Jennings]. I was hoping to find a clue to his origin in Owensboro, Ky while I was there but had no time to really look. Owensboro has a Crabtree Ave. that bisects McFarland Ave. very near the river and the Indianna Bridge. There is a huge book on Atkinsons, a nice one on Crabtrees and a folder for McFarland that has a few newspaper clippings. The Crabtree book has quite a few McFarlands some named James. I saw names that are familiar to the message boards like Hazelit [sp]. I just had no time. The librarian told me that they had a really nice Crabtree book but someone stole it. There is just too much coincidence to these three families being connected in Owensboro and Richard Crabtree's name for him not to connect to Owensboro somewhere.....whether it is through his father or someone else. I was hoping to find a McFarland who left Owensboro and migrated South to Fentress County.....had no time....The Atkinson book was Huge and hardbound. The lady who was working that day was connected to the Crabtrees and McFarlands but she was leaving as I arrived and was coming back as I had to run out the door in order to get to a baseball game on time. Alexander Miller and Wesley had to have been important names to the families for them to be used in several different families. Do you know whether or not Mabel Thornton published her work and if so where can I get it? thanks, Margaret