Dedication

             There are many to whom I dedicate these contents.
         For each and every individual is surely worthy and deserves
            acknowledgment, for without____
                                                      We would not be.

       Recognition, is also given to the organizations, and social groups such as               LDS of whom with out much material and data would not be available.

       Thanks to libraries, and vital statistics records and State History of
     Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.

           To all my unknown ancestors, and the legacy left behind for us to explore
    to view a part of their lives, as they pursue.

            Enduring plagues, famine, persecution, insufferable hardships, which most
   of us could never imagine, as the future is molded for its descendants.

           A special thanks to my aunt Cleo, for all the stories and records.
             To my 3rd & 4th cousins of whom shared information and photos.

          Special gratitude to James Henry Lawrence Lawler Phd of Ft. Worth,Texas           and Verena Lawler/Garvey of San Antonio, Texas for over seven decades of                 unrelenting dilagent years, with their continued determination even after long
   f rustrating hours spent in research of this_____
                                                                 Ancestral Quest.

       Especially to my oldest living family member, my uncle Jack Hudson, now
   ninety seven years young.

             Last but not least____________
                         To my grandfather, John James McDade, son of
         Charles Patrick McDade of Donagal, Ireland, by whom Iwas inspired at the               age of sixteen, and for whom I began
                                                           My Quest________-

                                                                                          My Legacy,
                                                                                                  To All Who Follow After____-
                                                                                                            Your Author

                                                                                                       Gloria J. (McDade) Scott
                                                                                                          October 15, 1999