Hi Kathey, I don't have time today --- but I will look through my DRAPER files tomorrow evening and see if I can find a link. I will get back to you in a few days.... Barbara Hutchinson Macon Co. TN GenWeb CC In a message dated 98-03-18 10:53:59 EST, a0027563@airmail.net writes: << Subj: [Fwd: Macon Co families] Date: 98-03-18 10:53:59 EST From: a0027563@airmail.net (Kathey Kelley Hunt) Reply-to: d.k.hunt@airmail.net To: TNMACON-L@rootsweb.com Macon Co Cousins- Can someone tell me how the SIMMONS were related to the DRAPERs ? I have ancestors buried in Simmons-Draper Cemetery- would like to know the connection? Also does anyone have a connection to any relation, ancestor or parentage of Richard Charles Jefferson BARRY b-1830 Macon Co TN? he married Mary Elizabeth SIMMONS 1853 Macon Co ? They were my grgrgrparents- & I don't know who his parents were- supposedly he is somehow related to the BRATTON family of Macon & Smith CO's- I'll take any leadd to work on....All of Mary Elizabeth's & Richard BARRY's children were born in Macon Co beteween 1855 - 1881-that's when they came to TX - Thanks! >>