Thanks, I don't know why, but I thought parts of Smith and Trousdale Counties became Macon County. That it was all orginally Sumner County surely makes tracking pre-1840 records much easier. Helen Larry W Smith wrote: > > All of Macon Co was from Sumner Co ,Sumner CO was taken from Davidson Co. > At 13,37 18.03.98 -0500, you wrote: > >Most of my Macon County ancestors lived in the part of the > >county that was located in Sumner County before 1840. > > > >Could anyone give me some idea of what part of the present-day > >Macon County was formerly Sumner County; e.g. Lafayette? > >Westmoreland?, etc. > > > >Helen Gant Donald > > > >Researching Macon/Sumner/Robertson County Surnames: > >ARMSTRONG, BIGBEE, CAVITT/CAVETT, GANT, ISLEY, JONES, LINK/LINCK, > >RIPPY/RIPPEY, RONEY, SHANKLIN, SLOAN, STARK > > > >