This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BENTLEY, GRIFFIN,VANZANDT/VANSANDT,MORTON,WALKER,HOPPER, AYCOCK, MASON,BEDFORD, DURHAM, FIELDS,WILHITE, SMITH,ASHCROFT, MOODY, HOBBS,TRUE, OUTLAW, COMPTON, BRYANT,YEAGER Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.coosa/2193.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Leanna, from reviewing your post, I too have a James VanSandt/VanZandt in my line. I have him born in Pennsylvania about 1760, married to a Sarah (Sally) Upgrove, he died 1830 in Morgan County, Alabama. Their son, John Randolph VanSandt, born about 1810, Rutherford County, North Carolina, married Margaret Ann Wilhite, June 1830, Morgan County, Alabama, he died 1850, Alabama, (location unknown). Their son, John Robert VanSandt, born December 1831, Alabama, married Margaret Jane Aycock, 1854, Alabama, he died October 1911, burial location unknown at this time. Their son, my great, great grandfather, James Cyrus VanSandt, born May 1865, Morgan County, Alabama, married to Mary Rosella (Mollie) McCarley, 1885, he died December 1931, Morgan County, Alabama. Their daughter, my great grandmother, Elma Beatrice VanSandt, born 1888, Morgan County, Alabama, married to Rev. William Benjamin Bentley, about 1903 (location unknown), she died June 1971, Morgan County, Alabama. The name in ! your post that caught my attention besides James VanSandt was the name Garrett, or Gerrett. This name is familiar in my family line as well. Since I believe that family names get passed down through generations this is the link that makes me believe these two family lines are connected. Do you have any information on James VanSandt's parents or where he might have originated from. I have a migration from Pennsylvania, to North Carolina, to Alabama.