Hello all: I posted this a while back but perhaps someone out there missed it the first time I wonder if anyone, can help me find the parents of William Rich Sr. He lived in Virginia,(West Virginia), North Carolina but most of his adult life in Tennessee. My wife, Jewel O. (Clement) Richard is descended from William Rich Sr., who, according to Census data, was born in Virginia about 1780. During the War of 1812 he served in Capt. William McCowan's Company of the 4th Regiment Virginia Militia commanded by Colonel George Houston. He served from March 30, 1814 and was honorably discharged August 28, 1814. Some idea of the area where he lived may be gleaned from where he was mustered in and discharged. He stated in his land bounty application, that he was mustered in at the "falls of the Kanaway River in the State of Virginia." I believe that the Kanawha River was intended. There is a town called Kanawha Falls located in Fayette County West Virginia (previously Virginia). . At the time of the 1830 census, William Sr. was living in Roane County, Tennessee with his wife and 5 of their children. Anderson County was formed from part of Roane County in 1838. By 1840, William Sr. and William Jr. and their family were living in Anderson County. In the book Our Tennessee Cousins, a William Rich was on a committee in 1841 to form Scott County from three other counties, one of which was Anderson County. My wife’s line then descends from William Rich Jr./ Lucinda Lively. According to Census Records William Rich Jr. was born about 1807 somewhere in North Carolina. Lucinda Lively, was born in Tennessee about 1814. In the 1830 Census William Jr. was living in Roane County ,Tennessee. By the 1840 census, William Jr. and his family were living in Anderson County, Tennessee, By 1850, they were living in Scott County, Tennessee. My wife’s maternal great-grand father was one of William Jr. nine children, Sabert Rich, born 04 May 1854 in Powell's Valley, Scott County, Tennessee, married Catharine Genelia "Tine" Finger on 04 March 1875 in Haywood County, North Carolina. They settled in Maggie Valley, Haywood County, NC. One of their eight children was Annie L Rich, born 20 August 1883 in Maggie Valley. Annie married William Andrew Clement on 30 October 1898. They were my wife’s maternal grand-parents. Ted Richard