Dear Ernest, Thank you so very much for your kind reply and wonderful info! Some of those places sound very familiar....have later connections of this same family in Golconda, IL that I know about(gUncles). This gives me a good place to start. My ggGranparents went from Roane/Meigs border region to Cedar Co. MO(adjacent to Abraham Rowden and I believe some of the Hembree's wound up there too). We have never found a marriage for my Cash's....show up as man and wife there in 1850. They later returned to Meigs Co. TN ca. 1860 and appear in a marriage there ca. 1867. So, I am hoping to learn more of their marriage(if there was one) and also about "life on the trail". I will let you know if I get any interesting facts from these localities and will post to the list if it might help others. No doubt, there must be some good publications out there also. Thank you again for your kindness and hard work. God Bless, Chris