This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DYER, VAUGHN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/111.2 Message Board Post: Have Sistler's 8 volume effort covering the state of Tennessee. Find no James with wife Flora or variation listed. Under the spelling DIE, there is a David, 22, Arty, 22, Elizabeth 2. Both David and Arty stated to be b. NC, McMinn Co., 320/489. James whould have been ca 76 yrs. of age. There is a concentration of this surname in Grainger Co. in 1850, including a James, age 76, Emeline T., 62, Sarah Elkins Dyer, 38; Leroy, 13. James b. VA, Emeline b. T. (This abstraction only lists birthplace of first two people listed.) I spotted the marriage record of James to Florantha VAUGHAN, 4 June 1838 in McMinn, which complicates the other find! Grainger Co. MAY hold some answers. There is also an interesting article in "Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 30 East Tennessee Counties." Under an article about a William Dyer of Monroe Co., s/o John and Mary B. (BARNES) DYER,. b. Washington Co., TN, 14 Sept 1818, but family moved to Sullivan Co. DYER family were from Ireland.....William m. Sara J. VAUGHN, native of Monroe Co, 23 Jan 1850..., d/o James and Sarah VAUGHN, and sister of General John C. VAUGHN. This couple had 11 children - 10 still living when this was published in 1887. It also states that the father was b. 10 April 1782 - first generation American. Among the male children listed are: John, James V, William E.,Hugh B., Robert L. & Joseph M. There may be absolutely no connection, but Monroe and McMinn are so close together - ????