Believe it or not, the following message led me on a short little wild goose chase that had a pot of gold at the end. >From: KarenProc@aol.com >To: CROSS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CROSS] Cross website >Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:55:08 EDT >Try this for a Cross website: >http://genforum.genealogy.com/cross/ >Karen I go to genforum occasionally, but not very often. But this time I clicked on the link, and just on a lark I checked to see if there were any references to my Anderson County, Tennessee Crosses. The only message that was a hit said that Zipporah and Milly Cross were mentioned in the 1852, Anderson County, Tennessee settlement of Zipporah England, and wondered if anybody knew who Zipporah and Milly Cross were. That's not much to go on, but I think it comes as close to proving two generations of ancestors for my Zipporah Peters as I am going to get. Zipporah Peters and Alfred Carter Cross of Anderson County, Tennessee were my ggg grandparents. They were married 2 May 1840 in Anderson County. Zipporah Peters was almost certainly the Zipporah Cross in the settlement. Before learning of the 1852 settlement of Zipporah England, I had strong circumstantial evidence that my Zipporah Peters was the daughter of Thomas Peters and Sarah B. (Jenny) England, and the granddaughter of Henry Peters, Sr. and Mary Wiatt, and of John England and Vesta Zipporah Choate. The 1852 Anderson County settlement for Zipporah England was for Vesta Zipporah Choate who married John England. I had already found a deed she had witnessed using the name Zipporah England shortly after John England died. But I had not yet found the 1852 settlement. As I said, it seems very clear that Zipporah Cross in the settlement must be Vesta Zipporah Choate's granddaughter Zipporah Peters who married Alfred Carter Cross. When added to the other circumstantial evidence I already have, it seems to me that this settles the issue. My Zipporah Peters was the granddaughter of Vesta Zipporah Choate. Also, this shows for sure (or as sure as I am going to get) that she was the granddaughter of Henry Peters, who along with Tobias Peters and a bunch of Scarbroughs, was a 1797 immigrant to (now) Anderson County from Greenbrier County, VA (now WV). Jerry Bryan ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com