This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACE/238.1.1 Message Board Post: Debra, Pickett County was formed in 1879 and named after Hyle Pickett, a representative from Lebanon, TN (Wilson County) , the person who sponsored the bill to make Pickett a county. He later moved to Arizona and was active as an attorney in the mining industry. I don't know anything about his family or genealogy. Howard Groce