Barbara - I really appreciate your starting the Mail List. I have at least two ancestors from Macon County, perhaps more, and I have quite a few from adjacent Sumner County, including some who lived very close to the Macon County Line. Macon County Ancestors: SLOAN - JACKSON Ancestors probably from Macon County: ISLEY - JONES Some of my Sumner County Names: ARMSTRONG - CAVITT/CAVETT - GANT - GROVES - HUTCHESON - LINK - RONEY JOHN SLOAN, my 4th great grandfather (b. Lancaster County, PA, 1759; d. 1842 in Macon County)married Mary Ann Gardner, and I believe they both died in Macon County. His ggrandson HEZEKIAH ELISHA SLOAN was born in Macon County, May 14, 1842, and he married EMILY LILLIAN JACKSON, b. 1839. I know nothing more about her. My GANT ancestors (JOHN HENRY, HENRY A., AND JACOB R.) lived in/or near Macon County. John Henry Gant had a farm on Highway 52 about seven miles East of Portland. In 1926 my parents Robert Lee and Anne Armstrong Gant honeymooned at Red Boiling Springs. I have black and white snapshots they took with an old Kodak box camera. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Nashville, my hometown. I have extensive documentation on the Gants, Armstrongs, and Links back to the early eighteenth century, and I am most happy to share with anyone. Helen Gant Donald Columbus, GA