Several surnames and given names that appear in Jefferson County records are very similar to each other. It is easy to confuse them in reading records. Quite often, transcribers mis-read them in published and on-line compilations.
Here are some of the more common stumbling points:
Surnames
Bales / Beals / Boles
Click / Clack / Cheek
Gant / Gault
Hance / Haun
Helton / Hilton (usually correct as Hylton)
Hendrick / Headrick
Lay / Loy
Lindsey / Livesey = Lindsay / Livesay
Mills / Miles
Moore / Moon
Moore / Moree
Mort / Mount
Moyers / Myers
Nance / Hance
Pankey / Purkey
Peck / Pack / Park
Shelton / Chilton
Turnley / Turley
Vance / Vaughn
Given Names
Chaney/Chandley/Chanley (all Moore given names)