HI Cathy.... the Deed of Sale was around 1857 if I recall.. its been put away with other papers at the moment.................From Arabella Mitchell to William Robert Mtichell...it would have been before 1860 as W.R and family went briefly to KY. which was just across the way, according to Kentucky cleck, and common at that time...and were on an 1860 census... In efforts to lcoate information another cllerk took it uppoon herself to search older papers found there in KY...Cadiz, but then found an Index Card File,, ( didnt have the whole file as it was appaarently used as temporary record)... where it stated on this liltle card that William R. And Aramenta Hays. Mitchell , my grandparents... had a daughter born in 1860 in Lyon. Apparently Lyon was very small and records belonged to Cadiz.. after that I had lost track of them as they no longer appeared on any records there........Never found them until many years later,, when looking into Texas records for different family members found William and Aramenta there in Hunt county TX oon 1870 census... Hunt was not far from Hopkins and places that an allied family line lived. The clerk wrote a personal letter regards them crossing over to Ky and said that at that time it was a the "pass through" between the two aeeeeeeas adn since it was larger many crossed there for shopping and or larger needs than could be had in Dickson at the time.....she said it was like two different palces across the river seperated only by the bridge used to cross the river....Clarksville was across the way. At that time of course I didnt know about the McAdoos... and only recently has it seemed to point into the areas we are talking about.. The Pension for Jeremiah V. Mitchell, Wm.R's brother came about in Henry county in 1862 to 1864........ during the retreaats from Fort Donalson etrc.. records were lost and burned....Jeremiah,, joining the army at 17 years old... ahd suffered from the long marches without foods and clothing and was walking barefoot through frozen ground and and other horrible experiences.......his feet became so damaged that the Asst. Surgeon said that he couldnt walk the 100 miles needed , to go back behing the lines and recover..........seems he barely exxcaped caaapture and finally made it behing the lines... much the worse for wear... and stayed there until the Surgeon said he was unfit for service.. now suffering from other maladies..... so he weent to Henry, where he had enlisted......most of his family had moved to other places in TN by that time.. aand being in ill heallth and with no funds.. he stayed and made a liviing in Henry until he died in 1936............ the letters written in his pension file show that it took three years to get a Pension for this poor man,,, about $12.00, ,,were written by the TN Senator and all the persons whoh had known him all his life.....a long struggle... he subsisted by being appoint Jusssstice of The Peace for that area for more than 20 years. Perhaps, as the Cadiz KY clerk has suggessted... I should look for McAdoo's across in Trigg area.. if they just all crossed a bridge to get there.. that would explain why all those Mitchells were ther and if I go back to 1850 and start anew maybe thats where the McAdoos started too. Its going to be a long ride I think..... Lenora