Sharon,, I will get back tomorrow as I have to shut down know.. Joseph Peeler Gist would have been the circa 1820 to 1840. I just received his Civil War Papers after many many years of searching...First time we ever had this in the family records. Will get out the book in the morning and look at the dates. But I know this is the general area. No one ever questioooned his but me. And I also thought that thought they sometimese named them after friends etc..I knew because of the family names that they were always, so far, from related lines and families. When I saw them in Dickson where the Mitchells were located,, the opposite paternal line, I knew there ahd to be a clue there somewhere. I do not have the time yet to search the Halliburotns that also appear there .. but I know that Joseph Peeler Gist and wife Elizabeth Thompson, named one of their sons Halliburton. So that pretty much says that there was a connection in most likley, South Carolina where many of the settlers were originally from. Gets intriguing doesn it?? Lenora