To: Jeanette O'Boyle Forgive me if you already have all this.... OVER THE MOUNTAIN MEN Their Early Court Records in Southwest Virginia Compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1976 Franklin County Marriage Records 1786 Through 1806 Turner, Stephen, and Lucy Snead. Richard Snead, sur. - Feb. 1, 1803 Turner, Isiah, and Elizabeth Candy. Jas. Prunty, sur. - Dec. 9, 1797 Sneed, Richard, and Patsey Adams, dau. William Adams - Mar. 5, 1792 Sneed, Richard, and Siney Turner - Dec. 29, 1801 Sneed, William, and Eliabeth Adams, dau. William Adams - Nov. 5, 1792 Canady, William, and Mary Douty, dau. Elizabeth Parker - May 23, 1798 Adams, Elisha, and Eliabeth Newton; H. Nele, sur. - June 14, 1798 Ministers in area doing marriage returns: Burns, Horatio Douglas, Thomas Fears, Jesse Hail, Randolph Jones, Jesse Jones, Robert Miller, Jacob Rentfro, Isaac Saunders, Joseph Stockton, Robert as a personal note: some of these families in Franklin Co Va during this time with marriage records, appear in 1840 census Giles Township, Van Buren Co, Arkansas. Others came thru that area of AR ca 1835, but moved on to Snowball, Searcy Co Arkansas. Among them, the son of Moses Potter and Frances Kirby, a Mark Renfro/Rentfro, Owens, Young, Reeves, Lemon, Edmunds, Farmer. (an Isham Turner married an Elizabeth Young 1792, William Quarles married Elizabeth Rives 1802, etc.) So it seems to me that maybe there was a group of neighbors or even a church group out of Franklin Co Va around 1800 who moved together - probably to TN - and then late 1830s they or their children show up in Van Buren County Arkansas - still togehter. (just something I am working on - since my William Potter, his parents came from Franklin Co VA as did the Kirby, Bartee, Estes connection) Mary Turney Miller hlm@qtm.net