OK, I goofed and hit the send button too early last time - sorry. Joel and Charity DeShields left North Carolina in about 1815 and came to Tennessee. His family appears on the 1830 census in Bedford County Tennessee and in 1840 they lived in Coffee County. In 1850 he was in Grundy County and his daughter Mary lived with him. Chairty was living with Cyrus Josiah DeShields and his wife, Jane. In 1850 they lived in Civil District #8 and lived between Wagonner & Smith. They appeared in the Agricultural Census. In 1860 & 1870, both Joel and Charity were gone and Josiah and Jane had moved back to Beech Grove, Coffee County, Tn. In 1880, they were living in Montgomery County, Tennessee in District One and their older children were living with them. Jane was an invalid. Would like to know the maiden name of Charity and also Jane. Charity and Joel were probably married in North Carolina. Cyrus Josiah and Jane were probably married in Coffee County, Tn about 1840-41. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Reta Parton