Liz, We may have been down this road before ??? Just can not remember ? But I have a Oliver William Prince b 1852 that was m to Agnes Hicks in Tuscaloosa or Bibb Co that moved to Texarkana, Texas . Oliver W.Prince was the 6th child of Mary Hill Foster and N.W. Prince of Tuscaloosa . Co. Thanks Jim Foster ----- Original Message ----- From: "liz hicks" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [ALBIBB] Descendants of Cornelius Latham, Sr. of Bibb County Alabama > John, > Since your Wm. Wesley Brown didn't die until 1932. Have you tried to > obtain his death certificate? Did he or his wife have a Confederate > Pension? You need supporting documentation to dates you have found > (tombstone, obit). My own Mother's tombstone is incorrect. She didn't > want my Dad to know she was older than he was! > > There may be information on your Brown's in Marion Lawrence's book on > the Families of Bibb and Chilton Cos. Alabama. I know the Birmingham Public > Library, > Tuscaloosa P. Lib., Dallas Public Lib., and Clayton Library, Houston, TX > has copies of Marion's book. There probably are other copies in other > libraries and > owned by individuals. You should check with the Brent-Centreville Public > Library > to see what they have in their family files on Brown and Latham. Liz > > > ------ Original Message ------ > Received: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:48:46 AM EDT > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ALBIBB] Descendants of Cornelius Latham, Sr. of Bibb County > Alabama > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: jwilliams1335 > Surnames: Brown, Latham, > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.bi bb/3731.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > We are attempting to obtain information on the ancestors and siblings of my > wife's G-Grandfather William Wesley Brown. According to his tomb stone he was > born in Bibb county Alabama 31 Aug 1842 died 15 Mar 1932 Sgt. Co. F 11th ALA > C.S.A. He is buried in the Kosciusko City Cemetery in Attala County > Mississippi. We know nothing of his parents or his siblings but a couple of > days ago we found the information on the descendants of Cornelius Latham, Sr > at http://alagenealogy.com/Patriarchs/Latham, Cornelius.htm > > If this information is correct John W Brown and Susan Latham must be the > parents of William W Brown, its seems very unlikely that there could have been > two William Wesley Browns born on the same day in Bibb County Alabama. However > there seems to be a discrepancy with his marriages listed in the Cornelius > Latham information and his marraiges listed in the attached Obit. > > With Brown being such a common name we though we might find information on > William W Brown by looking for Latham family information. We would appreciate > any help you can give us. > > By the way, do you know where your Williams family comes from? Mine were in > Jackson County Georgia in the 1850s/60s. One Williams brother stayed in Hall > County Georgia, one migrated to Texas and one (my line) migrated to Lafayette > County Mississippi in the 1870's. > > Regards, > > John Williams > Memphis, TN > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would > like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and > respond on the board. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >