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/xhC.2ACE/737.1 Message Board Post: Oakleyville isn't an existing place name in Alabama. I couldn't find it in my list of post offices for Alabama for 1859 and 1862. However, the 1860 census for Bibb County includes the name "Oakleyville" among place names recorded at the top of the pages. That's not far from Selma, and is probably the place in question.