Both my grandparents were born in Hardin County after the War of Northern Aggression. My great grandfather Jobe Stanfil Clayton was born in Lawrence County in 1832, married in Lawrence County in 1852, then moved to Wayne County where he had the first three of his eight children were born. His fourth child was born in Hardin County in 1860. The fifth was born in Pulaski County, Illinois in 1864. The sixth through the eighth were born in Hardin County in 1867, 1869 and 1871. Uncle Ulysses Samuel Clayton born in 1869 moved to Wardell, Pemiscot County, Missouri after his four children were born in Hardin County, shortly after 1900. My grandfather, Jasper Henry born in 1871, moved to Texas in 1919. Jasper Henry moved to Brazoria County Texas, an area settled by residents of Williamson County, Tennessee before Texas won it's independence from Mexico. I have no idea why Jobe Stanfill Clayton moved to Illinois during the war. I can only guess he was sympathetic towards the Northern ideas. On my grandmother's Reddin side is another story. My great uncle William E. Reddin was married to Mahala Bingham. Along with her sister Sarah who married to George McCann and two of her brothers, Wiley Morgan Bingham and Calvin Perry Bingham, this group and maybe others left Hardin County shortly before the War of Northern Aggression and settled in Calhoun County, Arkansas. Wiley Morgan Bingham and Calvin Perry Bingham were both killed in route of shortly after arriving. Wiley Morgan's widow, Lucy Anderson had her father come moved her and her sons back to Hardin County, where sons, Alex and John Wiley married Nancy Jane and Amanda Elizabeth Clayton, daughters of Jobe Stanfill Clayton, back in Hardin County, Tennessee. Calvin Perry Bingham's widow remarried and she and her sons and new husband left for South Texas. Several in my Reddin family and the Bingham family have tried to learn more about the causes of death in Arkansas and why these families moved to Arkansas. But we have not reached any one conclusion. I do know that some of the McCann's later left Calhoun County, Arkansas and moved to Brazoria County, Texas, but several of the Reddin, Bingham and McCann families still have relatives in Calhoun and surrounding Counties in Arkansas . My grandparents Jasper Henry Clayton and Melissa Almerrean Reddin both lost a spouse and had six children each before they married. One side of the family will say that Jasper got the idea from his brother in law John Presley. The other side of the family says that my grandmother Melissa Almerrean wanted to move because her younger brother Grover Cleveland Reddin lived in Brazoria County, Texas. I do not know what the reason was for leaving. I do know a bumper crop of cotton enable them to buy train tickets and the boarded the train in Lexington, Tennessee on Christmas Day 1919. Sweeny, Brazoria County, Texas had other families such as the Lindsey's and Meador's from Henderson County, Plunks from McNairy County, Orr's, Sheffield's Presley's from Hardin County, living there before my grandparents arrived. This only added to the John Sweeny's, Baugh's, George Armstrong's, John Arrington's, William Chenault's and Calvin Hammond's from Sumner & Williamson County, Tennessee. Of course after oil and gas was discovered in this area in the 1930's everyone looked like they knew what they were doing. I lived in Sweeny for 32 years and still have contact with members in each of these families, but I have yet to hear anyone give one reason why all these families left Hardin County, Tennessee. One thing I can say for certain, it is a long drive back to Hardin County, Tennessee for a family reunion. Henry Hanson