Suggest you check out Rutherford Co.( just 30 miles south of Nashville). For some reason tere were a lot of people migrated from Rutherford to Gibson in 1850-1870 period, including about 12 of my Phillips line. I know trhere was a Nancy Bell who married a Willaim King in RU. Co. in 1844 and they moved to Gibson Co. I believe she hasd a sister nmaed Lillian but am not positive. Am listing the URL for RU Co. archives below. They have a lot of court records (index primarily but they have some students working there who will look up the item/article and Email you the info). -- Rex Phillips- Dallas http://www.rutherfordcounty.org/archives/main.html

Rex, Thank you for jumping in here with that supporting information. I will check that out. Have you found out what the reason was for "a lot of people migrated from Rutherford to Gibson in 1850-1870 period, including about 12 of my Phillips line". ?? Because seven families of our immediate Stubblefield siblings that married in Wilson Co., TN (Wilson Co., is just North of Rutherford Co., TN) moved to Gibson County, and all lived near each other in the 1850 census. One of the interesting things is that ALL the families that married into the Stubblefield family were from NC. I have a index list of all the Bell's in Gibson Co., 1850 census and of the fifty or so there were only three that were not from NC and those were from SC. And going by the birth dates of their children the migration was about 1810 to 1830 from NC to TN. Do you have any BELL family lines in your tree? Because we have one of ours that migrated on to TX. One of the reasons that the Rutherford County is so interesting to me is that the migration pattern of my Stubblefield family [as I have found so far] is : 1819 "birth of first Stubblefield sibling" through 1830 census & 1840 census AL> 1841 Rutherford County TN for the birth of the last Stubblefield sibling> 1844 Wilson Co., Tn has several Stubblefield siblings marriage records> 1850 Gibson Co., TN census has them all living near each other.> I have followed the split of some going to CA and some to TX by 1860 census. I have been off all lists for a time, now I remember how generous & helpful everyone is on them. I love your sense of humor in your addy. Thanks mema ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:01 AM Subject: Re: [Tngibson] Re: Bell Family > Suggest you check out Rutherford Co.( just 30 miles south of Nashville). For > some reason tere were a lot of people migrated from Rutherford to Gibson in > 1850-1870 period, including about 12 of my Phillips line. I know trhere was a > Nancy Bell who married a Willaim King in RU. Co. in 1844 and they moved to > Gibson Co. I believe she hasd a sister nmaed Lillian but am not positive. Am > listing the URL for RU Co. archives below. They have a lot of court records > (index primarily but they have some students working there who will look up the > item/article and Email you the info). -- Rex Phillips- Dallas > http://www.rutherfordcounty.org/archives/main.html > > > ==== TNGIBSON Mailing List ==== > Gibson Co TN Genealogy Pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson/ >