In a message dated 9/17/04 5:30:04 AM, EBKJOYCE@webtv.net writes: << If the name Emily Frances Carney seems familar..... she first m. Napolean Joice, Jr. (1839-?). >> Was her grandfather Christopher Brandon who had 4 wives and 23 children? I think Nathan Skinner had 500 acres on the Cumberland and after he died it was sold to a George & Lucinda Gatlin and then it went to a George Ann Brandon, widow. There is supposed to be a Brandon Camp Ground Between the Lakes where the house that Nathan Skinner built up on a hill over the Cumberlan River......Is there??? The house was two story log.... Sorry I got hooked.... this is not my family but they sure are interesting......... jerree