This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/71.246.532.534.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Bill, I am only connected to this family through an adoption, of my great grandmother. Witt Nichols, born April 11, 1888 she was adopted by the 1900 census as by that time Thomas Douglas and his wife Antinette Colista Cook Nichols moved to the Thacker Creek area of Blount County that changed to Cullman County. I know that Thomas father was a Justice of the Peace, he had a aunt married to an Owens as well as his mother was an owens...Meriweather or Merietta not sure right off but they came from the Georgia area...believe Thomas Douglas born in Alabama after the move..They are in Randolph county 1850 census....Christopher possible relative but I don't really know....