I am looking for a Mitchell connection with my Garrisons. The name runs consistently through the Garrisons and I have always felt that the families must have intermarried. I have an Edmund Garrison (b. ca 1790 in NC) who married a Louisa, born about the same time, in Kentucky. I don't have her maiden name and I am wondering if she were a Mitchell. They were probably married in Barren County, Kentucky, prior to 1809....Edmund's family was living there and they show up in the household (with him head of household) in the 1810, with at least one child, my Buckner Garrison. There are three Mitchells in Barren County in that census, Thomas Mitchell and two Moses Mitchells. Is anyone from these lines who would know if there was a Louisa in any of those households? In addition...Buckner named a son Thomas. He then named a son Allen which was his wife's father's name, then an Edmund (his father), a Radford (?????) and then Mitchell. He goes on to name a son for himself, a son for his Grandfather Paul Garrison, two girls for family members, and the remaining three, not sure..but you can see there is preponderance of family names. There is also a Mitchell Garrison who is a peer of Buckner's in the area in Missouri where the family moved (Kentucky to Smith Co, Tenn., to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to Lawrence County, Arkansas, and then to Texas County, Missouri and surrounding counties, perhaps)........I believe Mitchell may be Buckner's brother. His descendant tells me he believes he was born 1807 but there do not seem to be actual records of it..but in that area. So, a Mitchell connection seems real likely to me. Perhaps not Louisa...but SOMEHOW! I am also corresponding with a lady who has a William Mitchell Garrison who may have been born around the same times, as he had a daughter born in 1834. I know family groups traveled together. My Paul Garrison was born in Augusta Co, Va., ca. 1750; then went to the Carolinas, left S. C. about 1790 and then to Kentucky, if that puts one of your Mitchell families in that frame. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks so much for you time! Marti