This was sent to me by a gentleman on the Franklin Co. NC list. Now it makes sense to me how Franklin Co. NC connects to Maury & Marshall Co. TN, other that just my family. -Mark ---- Mr. Murphy, you may or may not know that there was a surveyor, William Christmas of Bute and then Franklin County, who laid out the village of Raleigh which is now the capitol city of NC. This William Christmas, in the early part of 1800s, was appointed Surveyor General of TN and many families followed him to Williamson County, TN, part of which was cut off into Maury County. One of my Nicholson's moved there and about the whole McLemore family also. Christmas married one of the McLemore girls and his nephew John C. McLemore succeeded Christmas when he died about 1810. -Bill