This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AJ.2ADIB/2525.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Well, it is possible there could be a connection. I know that my Anna Adkins has been very difficult to track down--her line is a mess, as you said. I know that my prime candidate as her mother, Mary Burgess Alfred, married a man named Adkins after her marriage to Aaron Mcnew ended. I don't know if they had children, but I would guess they did. She would have been in her early 30's. I also know that this part of the family seemed to have a hard time controlling their reproductive urges. James and Anna's son Tom, my gGrandfather was quite the tomcat. I am still trying to identify all the children he fathered and the women involved. Mary, Anna's apparent mother, was illegitimate, and I doubt her marriage broke down over irreconcilable differences. People with young children didn't get divorced lightly in 1859. Are we talking about the same locations and times? Marion and Grundy Counties in Tennessee, late 1800's and early 1900's? With maybe some travel to northern Alabama or Georgia? I have two other James Hargises in my records. One born in 1831 and the other around 1912. Could either of them have been the James Hargis you are looking for?