This is my first posting on the Macon County Mail List, and I want to especially thank those of you who started it. Macon County also has an excellent Genweb page. My Great Grandfather HEZEKIAH ELISHA SLOAN (son of ROBERT WILSON SLOAN and RUTH JONES) was born in Macon County, May 14, 1842, and he died in Macon County on September 14, 1914. Hezekiah Sloan married EMILY LILLIAN JACKSON IN 1869. He was the great grandson of JOHN SLOAN and MARY ANN GARDNER. Hezekiah and Emily Jackson Sloan had at least two children: Robert F. Sloan, who appears to have died quite young Hester Sloan (b. May 7, 1874; d. May 22, 1955) My Grandmother, HESTER SLOAN married JOHN HENRY GANT, son of Henry A. Gant and Helen Shanklin, and they had two children: my Father, ROBERT LEE GANT (1901-1980) and my Aunt Emma Eulalia Gant Martin. Hester and John Henry (Jack) Gant lived on Highway 52, about seven miles East of Portland. (1) I believe that JOHN SLOAN was the first of this line to live in the area that became Macon County in 1842. I am very interested in exchanging information with any descendants of John Sloan, Robert Wilson Sloan, or his father Hezekiah Sloan (grandfather of Hezekiah Elisha Sloan. (2) I am interested in ANY information that would help me identify the parents of EMILY LILLIAN JACKSON and RUTH JONES. In addition, I am looking forward to learning more about the history and families of Macon County. Helen Gant Donald Columbus, GA (but a native Tennessean) Researching Macon/Sumner County Surnames: ARMSTRONG, CAVITT, GANT, ISLEY, LINK, JACKSON, JONES, RONEY, SLOAN, STARK(s).