Nancy, I'm interested in your BOYD name--is it from Taney County as well? <BG> I got Boyd kin! Here's a basis for comparison. The 1850 Taney Co. Census Enumerator has rolled many times in his grave because he only used initials instead of writing given names and descendants have hurled all kinds of invective sentences at him. But Janice Looney, who has published all but the 1840 and 1920 Census records in books (you can find them at the White River Valley website), has researched this census for years, adding her sources as she finds new information. Barbara Logan is in the midst of transcribing this census as well, for online use. This is what Looney has. I'm adding her research in parentheses. I'm also adding what appears to be related families ("going by gut" LOL). 1850 Taney Co. Linn Twp (this area became a part of Christian County in 1859, I think. They must have moved?) MORRIS, J(ohn) 28 M TN 600 source: 1860 Taney N(ancy) 35 F TN BROWN, W(illiam) 18 M AR J 24 F AR G 18 M AR P 16 F AR Big Creek Twp. (SE corner of county) #570 TABER, A(rchibald) 50 M KY 230 source: 1860 Taney & descendant E(lizabeth Morris) 40 F GA I(saac) 20 M IL M(elinda) 18 F IL J(erimiah) 15 M IL C(Carell) 13 M IL M(atilda) 10 F MO J(ohn) 8 M MO D(olly) 3 F MO E(lizabeth) 1 F MO #571 TABER, H(artwell) 24 M IL missing in 1860 S(usan Smith) 20 F IN 1860 Taney & descendant A(aron) 3 M MO M(elinda) 1 F MO Looney adds here that Susan was married to William BROWN (above) in 1860. Aaron & Melinda are enumerated under Brown (I presume in 1860 census). #572 TABER, J(ames) 70 M VA 150 descendant S("Celia") 65 F VA #573 TABER, T(homas) 48 M KY 1860 Taney & descendant M(ary Stewart) 37 F TN J(ames) 17 M IL E(lias) 12 M IL E(lizabeth) 5 F MO J(ohn) 3/12 M MO #574 MORRIS, R(ussell) 22 M IL 300 1860 Ozark (county MO census) A(manda) 19 F IL N(ancy) 3 F MO #575 MORRIS, T(homas) 24 M IL S(ally) 21 F AR J(ohn) 4 M MO P.J. 1/12 F MO HOLLAND, M 30 F AR M.J. 8 F AR T. 1 M MO #576 MORRIS, T(homas) 64 M GA descendant D. 62 F GA HOOVER, N. 31 F TN #577 ADARE, W(illiam) 45 M TN Turnbo E. 45 F TN M(ary) A. 18 F TN 1860 Stone (Co. MO census) S. 17 M MO H(enry) 15 M AR 1860 Stone N(icholus) R. 13 M AR Stone Co. Marriages W(illiam) 11 M AR Turnbo J. 10 M AR S. J. 8 F MO M. 7 F MO J(ospeph) 5 M MO 1860 Carroll Co. AR J(ames) M. 3 M MO 1860 Stone Then, there's a whole slew of Herrins, McDaniels, and Wadkins families. Then this: #585 SMITH, J. 63 VA E. 58 F VA T.D. 18 M IN S. 16 F IN B(enjamine) H. 38 M VA 1860 Taney M(ariah) 34 F VA LEMING(LEMMON), J(ohn) 28 M KY J(ane) 30 F IN N(ancy) J. 3/12 F MO Now... Just going by my previous research (I've not done any new stuff in eons, it seems), and what I know of Taney during this time frame...also by pob and earlier apparent places of abode... The Smiths in #585 appear to be the parents of Susan, who was first married to Hartwell Taber and then William Brown. Jane, the wife of John Lemmon, also looks to be a daughter of the Smiths. This corner (I can hear the hue and cry now) of Taney in 1850 had many Cherokee/5 Civilized Tribe members who either preceded or left the Trail of Tears in 1838/9. I would imagine that most of this bunch, if they are Cherokee, were in MO and AR before the Trail. The reason I suspect Cherokee (or other NA) for the Morris family in particular is that GA was Cherokee Territory at the time of the parents' birth in the 1790s. Your suspicion appears to be right, as far as Thomas the Younger being the son of Thomas the Elder. The Smiths are probably not Cherokee or NA, but there is a chance. The Chickamauga line of Cherokee started coming from northern GA long before the Trail of Tears. The children who were born in IL and AR also point to a possible NA connection, because my Bilyeu/Clinkenbeard line (who were Chickamauga Cherokee) were in 1830 Sangamon/Christian/Greene Co. in IL in 1830, and moved back forth from there to the region of Carroll and Madison Counties in AR and Crawford/Miller Counties in MO during the 1830s. In 1840, my own line of the descendants of Isaac Bilyeu and Mary Ann Workman were in Miller Co. MO; in 1850, in the SW corner of Taney Co. The birthplaces of many of the children above coincide with those of the Bilyeu/Clinkenbeard lines. I've not explored the Workmans much, but there were many of them in the SE corner of Taney Co. MO, SW corner of Ozark Co. MO, and Marion Co. AR around this time (1850) as well--and many of the Workmans claim NA heritage. Some of the early BROWN families in Taney do, as well. And I would suspect your Sarah/Sally to be connected, possibly sib, to the Browns in the John Morris household--I'm not sure of John's wife, but she could be a Brown, as well. And William Adair--well, there were several of them, but Adair is a prominent Cherokee surname, and there were Adairs in AR from the Old Settlers, and also on the Trail. In other words, if there isn't any Cherokee/other NA heritage in these intermarried families, I'd be really surprised. They were in the right places at the right times. And many came to this particular region long before the Trail. They also moved a lot prior to 1850. Ingenthron notes in "Indians of the Ozark Plateau" that there was a band of Cherokee who lived north of present-day Berryville (in Carroll Co. AR) during the late 1820s and 1830s, after the Old Settlers were forced to move (by treaty) west into Indian Territory. State law in both MO and AR forbid Indians to live in either state by 1840, and they adopted yonega names and sort of melted into the background. Or came to the White River Valley where there were many others like them. I looked in my copy of the applicable Cherokee rolls, but to no great surprise, none of them are there...if they were, they still used Cherokee names, and like my families, we may never know those names. And there have been families who were later noted to be Cherokee who claimed IN as a pob. I've not figured that one out yet. I need to get a grant so's I can study this in depth.... Vonda ListMom for the MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV at Rootsweb http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/