With fractured hand, messed up tendions I just had to share something w/you guys/gals for thanksgiving. "I'm just thankful surgery is next week" will pray for doctor's mentality... anyway below is a bio from Tennessee Cousins; Sevier Co.. TN. They're are many, but I choose this out of random. Can't reply to any lookups yet, give me til new year, please ;) Sevier County was first called such under the State of Franklin but settlements had sprung up down that way before the proposed new State had come into existance. The rist rallying point was est. in that section in 1783 when a number of settlers who had located there assembled at Major Samuel HENRY'S at the mouth of Dumplin Creek and there erected a fort. Practically all of these settlers around Henry's Fort when it was 1st built had come there direct from the Watagua settlement from around Elizabethton, Jonesboror and Greene County. In the old early records of the Washington County Court in 1778 appears the names of 5 persons named HENRY. They were: Samuel, Hugh, James, William and Robert. These may not all have been brothers as it would appear but we have enough proof (writer RAY's words, not mine) to esb. that Hugh HENRY and Samuel HENRY were (brothers); and it is not improbably that thye all had the same father said to have also been named Hugh. Long after the home of Samuel HENRY had ceased to be used as such, the locality where he lived was known as "Henry's Cross Roads". Both Samuel and Hugh HENRY are said to have been revolutionary soldiers. The children of Samuel HENRY and his wife (her name is not listed) were in part: Samuel and Hugh (he said that). Samuel HENRY, eldest son of Samuel m. Margaret E. BRYAN and lived at Henry's Cross Roads in Sevier Count. Hugh HENRY, son of 1st Samuel was b. 1796 at Henrys Cross Roads in Sevier (now I'm really mixed up). Children of Samuel HENRY and Margaret BRYAN are: 1 - Samuel HENRY, Lt. Col. in Conf Army, b. in Sevier 1828. Living at Gunter's Landing in Alabama at the outbreak of the war, and after the war settled at the town of Gadsden. 2 - Mary Ann HENRY, m. her cousin (what's new) Albert Gallatin HERY. They had a son named Saumel (how dare they) b. at Guntersville, Alabama in 1860. (if this is your line, I understand). Hugh HENRY b 1796 m. 4 times!!! Wow, puts me to shame - I have no life. 1 - UNK (lucky her) but she was b. in TN. (That was really informative) 2 - Patsy GUNTER, Cherokee half-breed (nice choose of words) daughter of John GUNER an old powder maker and Indian trader who settled at Gunter's Landing (later Guntersville) in ALA. 3 - Mrs. Anna (CLANCH) FIELDS, widow of the famous Richard FIELDS, Cherokee Chieftan. ( have a photo of them - need a new scanner)! 4 - Sarah WILLIAMS The children of this Hugh HENRY who was a grandson of the pioneer Samuel from Watauga to Sevier County by his four marriages were: 1 - Albert Gallatin who m his cousin Mary Ann HENRY. 2 - Patrick (by Patsy GUNTER) m. 3 times: 1-Sarah STARNES of ALA 2-Allie ALFORD 3-Mrs. Laura (GIBS) TODD. 3- Thomas Benton HENRY killed by a bunch of Union sympathizers int he War betw the States (RAY'S words, honestly). 4- Blackston Rector Williams HENRY, of Marshall Co., Ala. -- Chrystie MYERS - Rootsweb List & Ancestry.com's Board Administrator MOYERS MYRES MAYERS MAJOR COWGER BROOKOVER KRABAL SWECKER MYERS HOMESTEAD - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chrystiem/