In a message dated 11/4/2006 8:53:56 A.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Paula SORRY!!!!! I picked up Evelyn from one of the e-mail. I looked at it wrong. It was a Evelyn talking to you I have no record of this Clark family being connected to my family. My Clarks was on up north in Ala in Lawrence Co, Al. Our society has the Bibbs Co, Al book. Would be glad to do a lookup for you if you need me to. No I live in Mississippi. james clark James, Many thanks for your reply. My ggrandmother's name, which I may have wrongly assumed was her given birth name but nonetheless the name she went to the grave with was Candace Yucatan Owens Miller Drouet. She was born 1861, her file is in storage and I have not put my research on computer yet. So I presently do not have her exact month and day. In the funeral home records that I got for her burial, in 1924, her daughter, my grandmother (who died in 1981 at age 96 and my interest in genealogy came years after her death) it is written from word of my grandmother that her mother, Candace, was born in Scottsville, Alabama. Now that I think of it, isn't there another Scottsville in a different county? However, since my grandmother says later in a document that she was born near Tuscaloosa, ALabama, I assumed that her mother was born in the now gone Scottville, Bibb County, AL. AND, on Ancestry.com, there is a record although I do not know that origin of it, that says she was born in Bibb County, Alabama. I wonder if I could find out where the origin of that record is. That may uncover something too. Never thought of that. So, if you don't mind, when you can get to it, could you look in your book on Bibb County, and see if there is any reference to Owens or Miller. The problem is, that we always thought her first husband's name was John Miller, supposedly a fiddler of English birth. Grandmother told me that when Candace was pregnant with her, which would have been early 1886 or late 1885, that Miller was walking home from a dance he had played for late one night, and he was shot in the back and killed. Then I found a Candace Miller, a single female born 1861 in Scottsville, Bibb County, living as a household helper with a Thomas and Sarah Clark, and it says she is an orphan. This is too much of a coincidence. So was my grandmother illegitimate? Did Candace lie about her maiden name of Owens to cover u p her having a baby out of wedlock? Candace was known to be a very dramatic sort of salty character from a story I heard that my aunt told. My aunt (1907-1981 who married well and was a noble lady of grace) said that when she was about 14 and Candace was living with her daughter's family in Port Arthur, TX, that my aunt shared a bedroom with her in this little house. When they were getting ready for bed, Candace began to undress with the shades up on the window, and my aunt said "Grandmother, pull the shades to dress" and Candace said "No Erbel, leave them up, and maybe some man will desire me as David did Bathsheba". Maybe I'm making too much a judgment on her from that one story, but -- her second husband, a Frenchman, deserted her after about 15 years of marriage and twin sons. So I always thought he was a ne'er do well, but maybe she was hard to live with. Who knows. But a trait of dramatic story telling (not lying so much) is apparent in the granddaughters of my aunt, who was the granddaughter of Candace. Candace also had a pretty singing voice we heard. So, what I'm getting at is, did Candace lie about her background? All I know is that I don't think my Grandmother Julia Emma Miller Iles, ever talked about or told us much about her origins. She did tell me stories as a child about the old days, and but not about her origins. Sorry I got longwinded. Best regards, Paula Iles Restrepo