This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/2847.1 Message Board Post: Marjorie, what I believe you have "stumbled" onto in this cemetery are members of the Hezekiah Davis, Jr. family (he was married to Catherine Stipes). I'm still trying to untangle several of the Davises in Hawkins County, and they do present a mess, since the census records are not very accurate, and Arch Heck's book about the Hezekiah Davis family helps in some respects and gives bad information in others. It doesn't help that they were also very prolific families. Hezekiah, Jr. was the son of Hezekiah Davis and Amelia Johnson. According to Heck, he was born 17 March 1799 at Lee Valley in Hawkins Co. He married ca. 1821 to Catherine Stipes (b. ca. 1805, VA) and died in March, 1868 (Catherine died bef. June, 1860). Hezekiah was very much alive in 1860, living in the Marble Hall community, according to the census. They had these children: Arthur, b. ca. 1823 Lucinda, b. 2 March 1824 m. Robert G. Hamblen Pleasant J., b. 9 Sept. 1826 m. Julia Ann Pangle Catherine, b. ca. 1829 m. Thomas Davis Hezekiah, b. ca. 1832 Harvey, b. ca. 1834 George Jefferson, b. ca. 1840 Arthur is supposed to have married Elizabeth H. Davis, his cousin. I have their children as: Mary A., b. ca. 1858 Arthur, Jr., b. ca. 1859 Sarah Ann Martha J. Now, the issue here might be that Heck is completely mistaken when he gives 1857 as the marriage date for Arthur and Elizabeth, and corresponding dates for the births of Mary and Arthur, Jr. If the parents married by 20 or a little older, it's more likely that they were having children in the 1840's. Based on the names and dates you saw in the cemetery, this has to be the family.