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/FKB.2ACE/1115.1 Message Board Post: In the Ozark Heritage books has allot of info on your family but all I found on Jesse A. McCarter and wife, Margaret Ann, moved form the state of Tenn in the year of 1854. They settled on a 500 acre tract of land in Franklin township, Dent Co. They built their home near an old wagon road running from Gladden Post office through where Turtle Post office was later establish. ( Ozark Heritage Dent Co., Mo. 1851-1978 vol. one. p.365 Jesse also; came to Mo in 1850 and lived in Reynolds County. In 1854 , they came to Dent Co. Ozark Heritage Area Cem. McCarter Cem. McCarter, Tennessee w/o John A. 10/22/1857, Dent Co. -9/5/1931, d/o William Corttrell; sister to : John (md. Nancy Dewees, 2/20/1877, Dent Co) and Elizabeth (m. Alexander Eudy); Tennessee 2nd md. James Barker( this is strange, she is buried by the name McCarter. I just printed what the book says. The Dent Count Cem. book is full of your family. I hope this helps some. Larry