Hey. Fellows, There doesn't HAVE to be a real family connection for naming this boy James Strother Parrish. My own name crossed over into our family from a neighboring family during the Civil War era. Nathan-- didn't Robert and James belong to a local milita and even fought with Andy Jackson? James could have made friends with people from a large area who might choose to name a son after him. Also we know that there were Strothers in Robertson County and also in Rutherford Co. A Robert Strother married a girl named Hannah in Rutherford in 1813. And a Strother from Robertson Co married a daughter of the notorious Elisha Cheek and ran the inn at White House after Cheek died. We (or at least I) seem to think of Richard Strother coming into Sumner Co with his in-laws, the Cottons, but other Strothers could have come too and just spread out. Ed Strother lists three brothers for Richard and there were probably sisters too. Mecca