Hello, My name is Debbie Nelms Hitchcock of McMinnville, Tennessee. I am researching the NELMS family name. If you have any family genealogy records you would like to share or should you recognize any names below, please contact me. Listed below is a sample of my family members, beginning with my gg-grandfather. 1. JAMES WESLEY NELMS was born 1822 in Kingsport, Tennessee, and died 1869. He married MARTHA L. SLAUGHTER 1851, daughter of ISAAC SLAUGHTER and LOUISA. Children of JAMES NELMS and MARTHA SLAUGHTER are: 2. i. ROBERT NELMS, b. 1852; d. St. Charles, Virginia. 3. ii. GEORGE MURRIEL MONROE NELMS, b. June 27, 1853, Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. 4. iii. ARCHIBALD BATEMAN NELMS, b. October 22, 1854, Kingsport, Tennessee; d. February 20, 1936, Pennington Gap, Virginia. iv. ANN NELMS, b. 1855. 5. v. CHARLES WESTLEY NELMS, b. October 1857; d. October 18, 1920. vi. DAVID E. NELMS, b. 1861; m. EMMA WILSON, March 20, 1884, Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. 6. vii. JOHN MALAIRE NELMS, b. 1865, Jellico, Campbell County, Tennessee; d. February 15, 1924, Burlington, Ward County, North Dakota - Section 40 of cemetery. viii. MARTHA L. NELMS, b. 1865; m. JESSE SHIPMAN, February 08, 1880. 7. ix. JAMES FRANKLIN NELMS, b. 1870; d. 1943, Surgoinsville, Tennessee. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Debbie Nelms Hitchcock