The Sept. 1981 issue of The Prairie Gleaner, Vol 12 #4, on pp. 113-115, has an article contributed by Mrs. Vivion Williams, Pattonsburg, MO 64670, entitled "LAFAYETTE COUNTY General information about the connected families of Barton, Couts, Collins, Pearson, Wright." The Prairie Gleaner is a publication of the West Central Missouri Genealogical Society and Library Inc. One paragraph is: Christly Couts Jr., had the following children: William Henry, born Tennessee, married Nancy Minton; Charity Couts married Tyra Jennings; Elizabeth Couts married Joseph PAGE; Lisle Couts married Mary Thomson; Sarah Jane Couts married Samuel Durosette; Basheba Couts married Andrew PAGE; Nancy Couts; Anthena Couts married Axel PAGE; Alzadah Couts married George Minton; Frances Couts married John David Jennings." According to the article, Christly Couts Jr. had married 1812 Fannie Barton, d.o. Bavister (or Bannister) Barton. The latter was in South Carolina in 1790, was in GA, then TN, then in Warren Co. KY about 1800, served in the War of 1812, and his will was filed 1813 in Warren Co. "While in Tennessee his family knew the family of Christley Couts Senior. Many intermarriages." Perhaps it is merely coincidental, but that location in Warren Co. KY places the Barton family, and perhaps others of interest, in rather close range of the descendants of Robert and Anderson Page who had come to south-central KY from SC. Some of these Pages relocated to west-central Missouri, and had many close interactions with those Pages connected to the Couts. I can't help but wonder whether anyone has looked at Warren Co., KY very closely for Page families. The article does not mention where in TN the Bartons and Couts familes were. Dan Page [email protected]