Check in the court house records of both Lauderdale Co., TN and Sharp Co., AR, in their ORPHANS and WIDOWS ledgers. In one of them, it will tell you who the parents were, and who the children were the wards of.

No, I am not an offical genealogist for Lauderdale Co., but I am pretty darn good at it. I have a huge data base (over 58,000), and over 70% of them, have to do with people associated with Lauderdale Co