Okay, from what I have discovered... The Lewallens were either Creek or Cherokee (depending on who you talk to) who moved to Taney County shortly about 1843, from AR. Prior to that, the family had been on the Trail of Tears, and left it in AR. Hannah was the mother of our bunch, b ca 1814 TN d ca 1861 Christian Co. MO. She took up "homesteading" on Bull Creek, near where F Hwy crosses it today. I've been given to understand that she didn't die at home, but the story goes that Hosea Bilyeu and Ike Lewis were digging a grave for "Old Lady Lewallen" at Meadows Cemetery and were almost captured by bushwhackers (they traded shots). Hosea was the s/o Jacob Bilyeu b 1803 d 1852 and Catherine Elizabeth Williams b 1803 d 1852, who was raised by John Witten and Sarah Frances Harp Bilyeu. As for Hannah's husband, there are some theories, but I'm not saying "fer or agin". One is that Hannah's maiden name was Motley, and her husband was John Robert Babil Lewallen. Another is that her husband was a Matthew John Lewallen. We'll probably never know for sure. The family moved from lower Bull Creek after the start of the Civil War. Being in close proximity to the Springfield-Harrison Road, there was considerable problem with bushwhackers, etc. I would imagine they holed up for a time near the Bilyeus, but after Hannah's death, John Mitchell's book "Tales from Bull Creek Country" states that several went on up to Laclede County and Dade County. The children I have for Hannah are C (a girl) b ca 1833 TN d possibly in Taney Co., shortly after moving from AR Mary Jane b ca 1835 TN d 1861 md Wiett Bilyeu Keziah b Apr 1836 TN d ca 1921 Christian Co. MO md James Oliver Matthew John (cited in an earlier post) Jessee V. b ca 1841 AR d aft 1882 md Louisa Hammond Sarah M. b ca 1842-44 AR nothing else known George b ca 1843-1845 d 17 May 1912 Dade Co. MO md Lucinda Glass James Ross b ca 1845-47 Taney Co. MO d during the Civil War. A Lewallen son was killed by bushwhackers taking supplies to the Union Army. It is believed that James was the one, for he hasn't been found after the 1860 census. Robert R. b ca 1847-53 Taney Co. MO md Sarah Angeline Davis. This family is the one that started Lewallen Cemetery out between present-day Fall Creek Road and Hwy 165. Angie was a niece of Sarah Frances Harp Bilyeu, and like her cousin Hosea (pernounced "Hosie" in this neck o' the woods) was raised by Old Man Witt and her aunt. Elizabeth D. b Mar 1848. She died in 1900, in Ozark. She married Stephen Bilyeu, the s/o Old Man Witt (again, this is John Witten) Bilyeu and Sarah. She is the one who attacked Bud Meadows with a huge carving knife when he was engaged in a shootout with her husband and 3 sons in 1898. This feud, known as the Bilyeu-Meadows Feud, is still a sore point with descendants today, and many of the intermarried, close-cousin Meadows and Bilyeu families don't speak to each other--I'm not kidding. I just discussed it with a Bilyeu cousin last night. Bud Meadows' wife was Salina Elizabeth, d/o of the aforementioned Hosea Bilyeu and his wife, Charlotte Angeline Cecil (another of Sarah Harp's nieces. If you ain't confused, you're kin). As fer me bein' out politickin' n' campaignin', more on that in a bit. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/