1860 CENSUS: Vandover Gaw, 23, Est birth year: 1837, Birth location: TN. living with brother Arkly Gaw. in Shoal Creek Twp., Barry Co., MO DILLARD-JUDD CAMP 1828 ~ Highlander Dispatch Vol. IX, No. 5, May 2007 " It is not surprising that the Gaw cousins seened to stick together. There were seceral double first cousins in the family. In Overton county in the mid 1800's, three Rutledge sisters and one Rutledge brother married three Gaw brothers and one Gaw sister. I all the four couples had at least 28 children, all of whom would have been double first cousins to each other......In addition to Thomas; cousin Andrew J Gaw other cousins were brothers Arkley and Vandover Gaw. They both joined HUNTER's Missouri Cavalry Regiment. They wer both captured and both ended u in Alton Federal Prison in Illinois. Arkley died in prison 11 November, 1864 of anemia and Vandover died December 1864. Arkley and Vandover had two other brothers, Shadrack Gaw joined Co. I and died of fever in camp at Tupelo, MS in July 1862. Armel Gaw enlisted in Co. D of the 22nd Tennessee Inf. in Murfreesboro. "