This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jlABAEB/1712.2 Message Board Post: Interesting. I believe I am descended from James and Jerusha (maiden name unknown) Turpin from the Roane Co. TN area. Jerusha was Cherokee. James and Jerusha's daughter, Elizabeth Turpin married Absalom Potter and migrated to Oklahoma Territory after their children were grown. Their 3rd son, William Potter, is my great-great grandfather. I received information on this family from a John Strunk in Harriman TN, although I have not written to him in over 3 years now. My job is to establish a concrete link with my William Potter and this family. I am very, very close to doing it, but am still plodding along on the task. I looked through the sketchy family tree supplied to me by Strunk but found no Isaac Turpin. James and Jerusha's birth years are 1807 and 1808, respectively. Their daughter, Elizabeth Turpin Potter, was born in 1836, died near Thomas OK in 1924. We might want to keep track of each other in case we find a link. Candace Sheep 2002