My third great grandfather Henry HANSEL/HANSELL (HANSEL, MCGINNIS) b. about 1805 in Lincoln County, NC married Susan A. PRATT b August 1821 in Greene County, Tennessee (PRATT, CARTER). apparently about 1839 in Tennessee. Henry HANSEL arrived just after 1840 in Crawford County working land as far as I can ascertain was between Cuba and Sullivan that he finalized the 1820 Cash Act patent at the St. Louis Land Office mid 1850's. Susan's mother Nancy CARTER (CARTER, HARMON) married Absalom BLANTON about 1852 for she assigned her inheritance to her brother John in Greene County, Tennessee about 1852 as Nancy BLANTON. Most of the HANSEL children eventually settled in Franklin or Washington County except John who married Mary CARTER (CARTER, EPPERSON) and migrated to Texas and then Oklahoma and Mary Eliza who married William J. THORNHILL and stayed in Crawford County. Born in Maries County, Rosa Ann HANSELL, the daughter of my second great grandfather Henry H HANSELL, married Andrew Peter FREDERICKSON and resettled in Crawford County. Otherwise the HANSEL children married BRADSHAW (BRADSHAW, BROWN)- MERCILLE, KANSEL-FITZWATER (FITZWATER,ISGRIGG)-?, JONES-FUDGE, VAN NORT. Susan A. PRATT's siblings married KIMBERLIN-CAMPBELL-BLANTON-KIMBERLIN-BLANTON-BLANTON-BLANTON-BLANTON Other names: BARTON, BLACK, CROCKER, FORTNER, JAMES, JENKINS, LEWIS, NELSON, REESE, SMITH, STRICKLIN, SUMPTER, TROLINGER/TROLLINGER, VOLNER (counties of Dent, Iron, Reynolds and Washington)