Barb; Please go to the Madison Co. webpage and check out all the thousands of pages of good sources compliments of the hard work of Jonathan Smith! The Cartmell Diaries are a window on the lives of jacksonians in the mid19th- early 20th centuries. Robert Cartmell lived in Jackson from an old family. He kept a diary for yrs and yrs. on the comings and goings of various families in the County. His work is very valuable to us researchers, especially in your situation. What I did was copy and paste the entire thing , each volume, into a word document. Then I can go on the computer off line, and read it when I have time. It is very lengthy. I've printed out some of it as it's easier for me to read on paper. Also, in the scrapbooks of cemeteries and gleanings from genealogical records books Smith has done, he often will give an aside about the family or families involved -- who is related to whom, and he is quite thorough. He has a good deal about the Greers going back to Mecklenburg Co., NC. All very accurate. For those of us not near TN it is a blessing! Good luck and I'll keep my eyes open or Neely - Carruthers connections and any other connections. OH! I think Smith has a book of Court minutes online-- you might want to check there for the guardianship issues . I go to the book and there is always an index. Find the pages where the names are mentioned that you're looking for, and then go to the Edit on the toolbar. Scroll to "Find in top window" and enter the name you are searching for. It will jump right to all the entries on that page of that particular name. This is probably very basic to you-- forgive me if I'm telling you what you already know. This stuff was magic to me when I learned of it! Nancy