Still on the trail of my mysterious Joneses in Hardeman County, I found today a marriage record for a Louallen JONES and Eliza V. BORDMAN for 22 December 1844. Does anyone recognize these names? I can't help wondering if this "Louallen" may have been an uncle of what I have decided must have been my "Leollin"/"Leolen" that y'all kindly helped me find. I also found it interesting that an 1850 census entry showed a John Y. JONES, 65, married to Martha 39 -- I wonder if this may have been the John who married Martha SWINDLE? An 11-year-old Leolin is listed with this family; parents are shown as born in Virginia and Tennessee. Family legend has always been that this side of the family was from "the Carolinas" -- but Leolin did marry Susan DIXON, whose parents were born in NC -- maybe that explains it. Nancy Harwood (still looking for needles in haystacks)