Hi

Re: The reference to Ray--I agree that this is very likely where that Alexander reference came from, I too have that Alexanders will and can follow his son James in Tennessee and is a different James than ours.

Re: James Braden in the 1820 census? I can find him in 1830 in Franklin County, not 1820. In 1830 both James and Jacob have older males in the households, and since James goes to Saline/Gallatin by 1840, and has some association with the Durhams, that is one of the reasons I am looking at Henry Bracher (?Braden) in the 1820 Gallatin Co census as possible father to James, Jacob, John, and that this Henry might be brother to Thomas Braden Sr who died in 1835.

Thomas Sr named son Henry in 1828, and Henry Sr likely dead by then if this was his brother. No evidence to support this at all, but just some inconsistencies with Thomas Sr as the patriarch of all of these.

Regards Les J