Hi, Marcia Your Vances are right in the same vicinity (Tenn., Ark,) as mine so I feel strongly that they're the same but I'm missing too much info on mine to tie them together. I don't show a John Vance. My William Vance was in Crittenden County, Arkansas in 1850. (I have my mother and her parents in Lawrence County....BUGG/TANNER.) Also, my William Vance, Sr., according to the info I have from "Eastern Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs", left New Orleans in 1840 and moved back to Belfast, Ireland where he died. I'll forward any new info that I may discover that pertains to your Vances. I'm going to Salt Lake next month....maybe that visit will shed some light on these people. Good luck! Barbara