I am actively researching the James Brown family known to have been in Colbert County in 1880. The 1880 census for Colbert County shows: Brown, James b. abt. 1819 in either Tennessee or Kentucky Matilda b. abt. 1820 in North Carolina Theodore b. abt. 1868 in Alabama Nades E. b. abt. 1872 in Alabama Nades married Thomas M. Sanders in 1896 in Tishomingo County. In later census, she went by the name Esther and that's the name by which the family knew her. Two houses down is the family of John Brown 80 of Kentucky, Sarah 65 of Kentucky, and RAchel 25 of Kentucky. I'm curious to know if these could be the parents and sister of my James Brown. This would have been a second family for James Brown. In 1860 he and his first family were in Franklin County, Alabama Rock Creek P.O. James Brown 41 b. Kentucky. Sarah 42 b. South Carolina (Maiden name might have been Rutledge, unsure.) Mary 13 b. Alabama Lucinda 13 b. Alabama Elizabeth 12 b. Alabama John 10 b. Alabama Jane 7 b. Alabama Nancy 4 b. Alabama (My 2nd greatgrandmother) Isabella 2 b. Alabama The 1900 census for Tishomingo County, Mississippi shows John Brown (above with family) Brown, John C. 1850 Alabama Mollie Alabama Amalphus Felix Sept. 1889 Mississippi Ila (or Ida) B. Sept. 1891 Mississippi Willie B. Oct. 1893 Mississippi Lizzie Sept. 1897 Mississippi Tillie June 1899 Mississippi John's father, James is listed as living with his eldest daughter Mary and her husband Phillip Wallis in Tishomingo County, in 1920. As far as I can tell, most of this family stayed close to Colbert County, Alabama and Tishomingo County, Mississippi. This family may have been Native American. I would dearly love to find someone else of this line to exchange information. I look forward to hearing from anybody familiar with this line. Billie Molder Millsap bemillsap@sbcglobal.net

Can anyone on this list recommend resources on the Wilson Dam and its workers? I am researching the family of Louis (Louie) Fellows Woods and his wife Willimina (Willie) McKibbon Woods who had two sons Louis, Jr., and Robert McKibbon Woods. They lived in the Wilson Dam/Sheffield area from about 1916 (?) to 1929, when they moved to Falls Church, VA. Louie was either a carpenter or engineer for the Dam (after working on the Panama Canal). In 1920 they were living at Wilson Dam (Census), but their home was later given as Sheffield (Louie's Federal service records). Specifically, I would be interested in: 1. Sheffield Yearbooks? The boys would have been in HS by the late 1920s 2. Sheffield phone books/City Directories 3. Pictures of the building of the Wilson Dam 4. Pictures of the community of Wilson Dam and Sheffield in the 1915 to 1930 time period. Any suggestions of similar information are welcomed. We are coming to Alabama in June and would LOVE to find the house where they lived in Sheffield. Thanks! Marilyn Arnold