ALABAMA Researchers! Several of you sweet people have asked me to let you know what MY brick walls are so that you can help me with my research. Well, here they are. They all eventually settled in Alabama. I just want to trace their lineage back to Europe. Your help will be sincerely appreciated. 1. I would love to know the PARENTS/SIBLINGS of: John Jesse Overton (b. 1790 Louisa Co., VA) and his wife, Sophia/Sophie Henry (b. 1800 GA) [They lived in Baldwin County, Alabama, and John Jesse established an overland freight route in Mobile and Baldwin Counties.] Metzer/Medgar Asa Litchfield (b. 1797 SC) [He originally settled in the Marengo and Perry Counties of Alabama. He may have died there. His wife, Lovey Nelson Litchfield, eventually moved to Baldwin County, AL, where her kinfolks settled--the Nelsons.] Henry Taylor (b. 1787 SC) and his wife, Rosanna Kelly (b. 1822 SC) and, possibly his father, John Taylor (b. 1767 NC) [John was an early settler in the Tensaw Country of Baldwin County, AL, arriving there by 1813. One source indicates that John was the father of Henry. I am not sure of that yet. Henry came later. He had land in Monroe County, AL. One document indicates that he was an early judge of Monroe County. I am in the process of verifying that. His marriage to Rosanna was at least a second marriage. Her father may have been Samuel Kelly, since he provided security for her marriage. At the time of her marriage to Henry, she was under age.] William W. West (b. 1802 Bucksport, ME) James H. Hill (b. circa 1824 ENGLAND) and his wife, Mary Ann Mauldin (b. 1831 GA) [My first record of James H. Hill and Mary Mauldin is their marriage record in 1848 in Pensacola, FL. I have no idea who James' parents or siblings were. He was employed at the Pensacola Navy Yard as a brickmason at that time. He and Mary moved to Mobile, AL a few years later and lived there the remainder of their lives. He was a Master Brickmason who built several fine mansions still standing in Mobile. He was associated with prominent Mobilians. When the Civil War started, he helped form Gage's Battery, an artillery unit "formed by prominent Mobilians,"according to one source. He led the battery in its fight on the first day of the Battle of Shiloh. He died during the war, in an explosion, where munitions were being manufactured. I would love to know if he was kin to anyone in Mobile, other than his wife and children. I suspect he was, since he was so quickly accepted into Mobile society. And I would love to know which Mauldin lineage in Georgia was Mary's. Mary had a brother, William, and a sister, Sarah. I have been unable to determine her parents.] 2. I would like the MARRIAGE RECORD for: John Jesse Overton and Sophia Henry, and for John Taylor and Margaret ??? 3. I would like the DEATH RECORDS for: William W. West, who died in California in 1856. [This ancestor was a seafarer. Due to the place and year of his death, I think it is possible that he took a load of people to California for the gold Rush, or may have gone just by himself. His family--wife, Elizabeth, and children--stayed in Bucksport, Maine. So, it sounds like he had planned to return to Maine, but circumstances prevented that. I would love to know how and where he died.] Metzger/Asa Litchfield, who died 1850-1860 in Alabama John and Margaret Taylor, who died in Baldwin/Monroe Co, sometime in the mid-1800s. Rosanna Kelly Taylor Litchfield, who died circa 1890, possibly in Alabama. Thanks for any information you have about these ancestors of mine! Kathryn