cHi, Robbie: I don't have much, but maybe what I do have will help. My 3rd great-grandfather was Peterson McGill, b. somewhere in TN abt. 1816. He lived his entire life within the 10-mile radius of where Giles & Lawrence Counties in TN and Lauderdale and Limestone in AL come together. He was apparently married four times, but I have records of marriage licenses for the last two. The second is confirmed by church records, and the first marriage, the one relevent to you, I have only (good) but unconfirmed knowledge of. His first wife, whom he must have married about 1836-1837 was said to be Mahala LONG. I have heard that her father's name was probably Daniel. She would have been born about 1820. She and Peterson had seven children before she died about 1849. The only census where they would have been together was that from 1840, at which time they lived right over the border from Giles in Lawrence County. At the very least, there were LONGS in the vicinity by the late 1830's. They were probably there long before that. I a recent visit to Oxford Cemetery in Giles, my sister and I accidentally tripped over a stone which just poked out of the earth and looked to have been buried for years. We pulled it up far enough to see that it was obvoiusly inscribed by an amateur. The last name was LONG, and the first name was unreadable. The date, not altogether clear, looked like 1820-something. Good luck with your search. By the way, Peterson McGill's other wives were Oda MARBUT, Sarah SHERWOOD and Catherine DALY. Several of Peterson's kids and their spouses are buried around Giles Co., mostly in Oxford and Booth's Chapel Cemeteries. I have never found Peterson's grave. It may not have had a stone. Or, perhaps he was buried in a soiltary plot on the farm on which he was living near Anderson in Lauderdale Co. at the time of his death in 1888. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know Jim Davis