Hi cousins, I have some information about Thomas Curran Vestal and Obedience Williams. They and their children are on the 1840 and 1850 censuses of Jackson County, Missouri. Their son, Billy, married Sarah Hutchins in Jackson County. She is on the 1850 census there with her mother and siblings. Their daughter, Rebecca, did not marry Martin Howlet. She is on the 1840 Jackson County census with her parents but she died 8/18/1845. Their daughter, Elizabeth, did not marry George D. Long. She is not on the 1840 census because she died 4/3/1834 in North Carolina. I think that the Elizabeth who married George D. Long was the daughter of Solomon Vestal. I don't think that Thomas and Obedience's daughter, Sarah Ann married Charles Metcalf as she went to Missouri with her parents. There was not a son named Hobson Vestal. Hobson was part of the name of their son, Lemuel Hadley Hobson Vestal. That's all for now. Barbara Vestal Martin