I am working on who are the parents of John Guthrie and his wife Jane. According to John's will he wanted to be buried at Stephen M Dance's place. We don't know that it happened, there is no marker with his name on it. I don't know that the Dance & Guthrie families intermarried, I haven't run on to any records to indicate that, but I have been wondering if they knew each other previous to coming to TN. According to Goodspeed's history of Moore county, " John Guthrie with his family settled near the site of Dance & Waggoner's mill in 1820, and lived there until his death." Does anyone know where this might have been [in relation to a modern map, please ;-)]? Also I have found a marriage record for Steven Dance and Sarah Smith 27 Dec 1813, Granville co NC. Since John Guthrie's several oldest children were born in NC as was his daughter in law Nancy [married to James C Guthrie] I have thought perhaps the Guthries also came from Granville, tho no luck finding proof yet. Any one with more information, it would be greatly appreciated. Mary