Surnames: Peek, Maxwell, Pierce, Buttrey, Cowgill, Kling, Phillips and Carpenter are the brick walls.

LITTLE AND WARFIELD were families with a lot of kids that intermarried three times. Thus I had approximately 40 or more combinations of great-great or great aunts and uncles who lived in Fulton County alone beginning as early as 1833. Some like Little, Martin and Helle still live in the Fulton County today. Others like the descendants of Warfield live in nearby counties.

My paternal line lived in Tazewell County and I garnered a combination of about 20 great-great or great aunts and uncles who lived there. Among them could be found Van Pelt, Broyhill, Hobbart and Goueia.