Hi Everyone. I'm new to the list and have a question I'm hoping someone can answer for me. I'm researching John Sammons, born 1797. He is shown on the 1840 Franklin County, Tennessee census at age 43. Then we find him in Walker County, Georgia in the 1850 census, age 53; then he and many of the Sammons family show up in Randolph County, Arkansas in the 1860 census, age 63. It seems unusual to me that he would move from Tennessee to Georgia and then back west to Arkansas. Anyone know of similar migration patterns and what may have prompted such moves? Thanks for any light you can shed on my puzzle. Sandy Sammons Simmons