This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tgunn196 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.dickson/238.4.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Sally. You can contact me at tgunn@ioes.org. The Ben Gunn book is old, printed in my g-grandfathers time. Ben Gunn is in the Wripley's Believe it or Not book for going around to every relative in the country to aquire information for it. Of course, a lot more of us have been born since then so it is very out of date. Reuben was a Revolutionary War vet from North Carolina, several of his sons were War of 1812 vets. There are people who have become DAR through Reuben, so the proof is documented somewhere. My ancestor was the second son James and he was a Leutenant in the Tennessee Militia, I think Abisha was an Ensign in the same Militia. The best source of Reuben information is Ab Gunn from Marietta Georgia and his email is gunnabbl@bellsouth.net. Abb just participated in the Gunn DNA Study and we finally found that we do indeed descend from Caithness Scotland Gunns who probably ended up in Germany in the 1600's with the Scottish Military Regiments. I can probably answer most o! f your questions by email. Feel free to contact me by email. Tobin Gunn Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.