Hi! I'm Christine Hindle. I have been researching several lines in Hickman County for over 25 years. I still have several puzzles to solve. I have available the following resources: History of Hickman County, Tennessee by Spence, Hickman County TN Quarterly and Monthly Minutes 1867-1878, Hickman County, TN Wills 1866-1982, Hickman County, TN Court Records 1814-1829. I also have the local newspaper on microfilm but at present do not have access to a microfilm reader to do lookups in it. Here are my puzzles: Who were Jesse Briggs' (b. 1807, d. 1878 -- lived in Swan Creek) 3 wives and which children go with which wife? My grandmother told me that one of Jesse's wives was being unkind to his two oldest daughters and he came home one day and found them being treated badly and ran her off. He told her anyone who could treat two motherless girls that way was not anyone he wanted around. I think this would be wife No. 3. I have wife no. 1 as Martha Ross and I don't know the name of daughter no. 1 b. 1830 but daughter no. 2 is Cornelia Camila Briggs b. 1835. I believe Macenus M. Briggs b. 1840 is also her child and she may have died in childbirth with him. I believe wife no. 2 who is shown as Martha A. in the census is Patsy Prince (my ancestor). I know she is the mother of John and George, but I believe she is also the mother of Jesse, William, Sarah, Howell and C. (b. 1861). I believe Margaret shown in the 1870 Census is wife no. 3 and that there were no children by her. John and George Briggs married sisters: Margaret Frances PEERY and Lucretia Catherine ("Cass") PEERY. Another puzzle is Margaret Frances Peery's father. I think he is Samuel PEERY (b. 1796 and died 1956), son of John PEERY and Martha WALLIS. Anyway, Mr. PEERY was a widower with some grown children and he married a school chum of his 14 year old daughter (also 14 years old) -- Caledonia STARNES(b. 1835, d. 1920). They had two little daughers, Margaret Frances and Cass (that married John and George BRIGGS). When Margaret was about 3 her daddy asked her to bring him an apple from the orchard. He had some bowel problem and wasn't supposed to have apples. It killed him. Caledonia later married a Will Hutcheson or Hutchinson. Samuel PEERY seems to have been a friend and neighbor of Jesse BRIGGS and had a 14 year old daughter at the right time to be Caledonia's friend. Caledonia, herself, is another mystery. Grandmother said she was raised by an old spinster named "Aunt Celie STARNES". You see Celie STARNES living with the BRIGGS in a couple of the CENSUS and she appears to be the same woman that is Angelina (STARNES) BRIGGS' mother. Angelina was married to James "Pap" BRIGGS, Jesse's brother. Her parents were Jackson and Celia STARNES. Patsy PRINCE is yet another mystery. She may be the daughter of William PRINCE born 1760-1770. All these names are very prevalent in Hickman County history but so far no one holds the key to unlock the mystery and put all these pieces together.