This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parsons Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4R.2ADE/1626.1.1 Message Board Post: My cousin sent that information into the Book. I do have that information on him. Can you check on Nelson Parsons from Dallas County, Alabama?? Can you check the verticle file for land records. I do know that Joseph Elijah Parsons had land and during the stock market crash he lost everything.