This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRANDON, ABBOT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/110.2 Message Board Post: To give you a short, sweet answer - Sweetwater is in Monroe Co. It is close to Loudon, recogized in 1870, from portions of Roane, Blount and Monroe, and also to McMinn. Of the two, I would be tempted to chase the name in 1870 through Roane Co. There is a BRANDON, John, 35 and family listed in Roane 1870 - only ones of that surname. In District 1, excluding the City of Kingston, there is a D.C. ABBOT, 33 & family, an L.L., 20, and young family. In District 2, S.N., 59, wife Sarah, 55 and son Columbus, 23. In District 4, there is an R.H., 59, b. VA, Mollie, 38, b. TN and 10 Children, all b. TN. The reason for finding folks in a county other than Loudon, was that they were too busy setting up a County Government, so people were enumerated in their "old" county that one last time.