Dear Ivy/Owens researchers If you are not on either the Ivy or Grainger County please contact me and let me know if you are not receiving any of this information (VBG). Seriously please drop me a brief note in the next few weeks saying you have seen this. Otherwise I will contact you personally. Baxter has never AFAIK appeared in any of the published material on the Ivey family. I do think he is connected to my Iveys though. Early tax lists list him in the same company as my ancestor Henry Ivey and his sons. There is a least one instance that I recall of the name Baxter occurring in Benjamin's line. (Ivie-L list members "my" Benjamin is the "Tennessee" Benjamin.) It appears from the will that the Westerns were probably Baxter's step sons. Baxter is listed in the 1799 Grainger County tax list. Backster Ivey 1 Free Poll (Note I am a long way from the McClung and so can't consult the original lists on film. The list I consulted was in Pollyanna Creekmore's Early East Tennesee Taxpayers and Mary Barnet Curtis's Early Tennessee Tax Lists, standard and respected works, but there were slight variations in the lists.) The 1805 list has Baxter Ivy 1 free poll in Howell's Company. Basically the same ppl as Captain Mckee's list. My Ivys, Mayes, (Sherrod and his brothers not my other Mayes), the Howells, Hodges, Daniels etc. (The 1805 list was in Penelope Johnson Allen's Leaves From the Family Tree ie not an orginal list) Also you notice none of my Ivys were mentioned in the will. Zara Mcgee was one of the old settlers (left a will mentioning sons Willie and Nehemiah). No other connection to the Iveys (Ivys) that I know of. Gail