Christie,
A story from another researcher in Coffee Co TN, who is a descendant of Wm M. Qualls (traveling minister) and wife Julia Ann Sharp has just passed down a story from a family researcher that Wm. M. is son of Cannon Qualls. This totally jives with my theory that Cannon is the brother of my 2ggrandmother margaret Qualls who married john Orrick then Wm B. Nunley.

Margaret was married before 1850, and Cannon is shown with girls her age in the 1840 Cannon Co Census. This family is very hard to track because they happened just before the 1850 census where kids names were listed.

So, I'm confident enough Cannon now that I've added him to my tree, so this is a great thing for me.

This probably means that Cannon's father is James Calvin Qualls (Wife Elizabeth Pelfrey), and that also jives with my theory because margaret's first son is named "James C Orrick".

Anyway, email me Roger AT Arrick.com