In a message dated 06/22/2001 4:20:17 PM Central Daylight Time, martee@citlink.net writes: > deed problems are the usual, > NOT the unusual and we still live with descriptive errors made LONG > ago. For which I am very grateful. I have a Sumner County Tennessee deed from an estate settlement dating from 1883. It took over 20 years to have all the eyes dotted and tees crossed, and in the process I learned the names of another generation of descendants that I would never have known otherwise. The five children were born after the 1880 census and had left Tennessee before the 1900 census. I still haven't found a census record on them, but I know their names, their husbands' names, and their residences from a quit claim deed they signed in February 1904. I wish I had more such deeds. Joyce