Stan, Again, thank you. Jackson Co TN ancestors Dicus/Dycus, Sweazea and McCarver. Hannah & McMillen . Edward Dicus/Dycus, Larkin Sweazea & Logan McCarver , married the daughters of Samuel and Mary (McMillen) Hannah in Jackson Co. TN. It is believed that all of these families lived in or near Morgan District Rutherford Co., NC before moving to Montgomery and Jackson Co., TN, arriving in Jackson by the years between 1800 and 1810. Samuel Hannah is found in a Jackson County Tax list either in 1810 or 1812. Samuel Hannah's Will was destroyed in a courthouse fire , but it was litigated for several years and was found in : Book : "Jackson County Tennessee Chancery Court Minutes 1840-1861" Abstracted, Transcribed, annotated, and indexed by Betty Huff." A Bible record was found in the book: "Tennessee Records" "Bible Records and Marriage Bonds" compiled by Jeannette Tillotson Acklen, Clearfield Publishing. Page 61, Bible Record: Samuel Hannah Bible in possession of great -grand-daughter, Jennie Charlton Foster ( Mrs. John Stephen Foster), Lebanon, Tennessee. My Query to Tennessee State Library & Archives on Samuel Hannah's Estate and Will & reply from them quote: "The big problem here is that almost all of the pre-1872 Jackson County records have been destroyed. The following URLs will give you an idea of the types of records in our collection, and what we have available for Jackson County: " I checked the book "Tennessee Wills and Administrations", which lists all pre-1861 wills on record in Tennessee. I checked the index for HANNAH and its alternate spellings and did find the following listings: HANNA, Samuel 1834 Maury County, wb-x-255 HANNA, Samuel W. 1846 Rutherford County, rb-13-465" Also to TSLA: Subject: Re: search TN marriages before 1861: I did not find the marriage of these two people in "Early Middle Tennessee Marriages," "Early East Tennessee Marriages," or "Early West Tennessee Marriages." Please keep in mind that the earliest marriage records to survive from Jackson County are from 1872 due to a court house fire in that year. Yours truly, Kassie Hassler, Librarian III This was found on Jackson Co., Genweb: Petitioners for Reduction of Constitutional Limits of Jackson County, TN-1806 The Prayer of your Humble petitioners showeth that they Labour under many inconveniences by not having their County (to Wit Jackson) reduced to its Constitutional limits and their seat of Justice permanently fixed, relying on your clemency we hope your Honorable body will pass a Law to that affect and fix our seat of Justice at Fort Blount. And your Petitioners in duty bound will ever pray on. Jackson County, 8th July 1806. Among others signers was: Sam'l Hannah. Descendants of Samuel Hannah Generation No. 1 1. Samuel1 Hannah was born 02 July 1767 in Ireland ( Scotland or Wales), and died 24 August 1840 in Jackson Co., Tennessee (age: 73 years 1 month 22 days). He married (1) Mary McMillen 15 September 1790 in ? South Carolina -TN, daughter of McMill*n. She was born 08 December 1768 in ?possibly North or South Carolina, and died 16 January 1825 in Jackson Co., Tennessee (age 56 years 1 month 8 days). He married (2) Elizabeth _?_ 24 January 1833 in Jackson Co., Tennessee. She was born 07 November 1792 in ?, and died 22 August 1839 in TN (age 46 years 10 months 15 days). Children of Samuel Hannah and Mary McMillen are: 2 i. Melinda2 Hannah, born 04 December 1791 in Jackson Co., Tennessee; died 29 December 1843 in Greenfield, Dade Co., Missouri. She married Edward Dicus Abt. 1813 in Jackson Co., Tennessee; born 25 August 1790 in Morgan District, Rutherford Co., North Carolina; died 13 May 1865 in Greenfield, Dade Co., Missouri. [Note: Melinda and Edward Dicus are my second great grandparents] 3 ii. Lucinda S. Hannah, born 24 March 1794 in Jackson Co, Tennessee; died Bet. 1860 - 1870 in Jackson Co., Tennessee. She married Larkin Sweazea 03 August 1837 in Jackson Co., Tennessee; born 1812 in Jackson Co., Tennessee; died Bet. 1870 - 1880 in Jackson Co., Tennessee. 4 iii. Jeany Hannah, born 28 November 1796 in Tennessee; died 27 September 1816 in Tennessee (age 19 years 10 months 1 day). 5 iv. William Davidson Hannah, born 02 October 1799 in Tennessee; died 06 November 1803 in Tennessee (age; 4 years 12 days). 6 v. John M. Hannah, born 25 January 1802 in Tennessee; died 28 March 1831 in Wilson Co, Tennessee (age 29 years 2 months 5 days). He married Amelia A. Jones 08 January 1828 in Tennessee; born 1806 in Wilson Co., Tennessee; died 15 December 1885 in Lebanon, Wilson Co, Tennessee. 7 vi. Elizabeth Matilda Hannah, born 23 March 1805 in Jackson Co, Tennessee; died Abt. 1851 in Wartrace, Jackson Co, Tennessee. She married Logan H. McCarver 13 November 1832 in Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee; born 02 February 1813 in Tennessee; died 25 January 1886 in Wartrace, Jackson Co., Tennessee. 8 vii. Samuel Wilson Hannah, born 29 November 1807 in Tennessee; died 02 November 1845 in Tennessee at age 38. He married Juliet ____ 09 December 1830 in Tennessee; died 21 June 1880 in Tennessee. 9 viii. Joseph Harvey Hannah, born 13 April 1810 in Tennessee; died 13 August 1827 in Tennessee (age 17). Thanking you in advance, Nancy