Don't know if this helps at all, but on a xeroxed copy of an extended family tree I found the following: John Shields m (1st) Elizabeth Paulding, (2nd) Keziah Hagan John had (8) children, one of which was Harriot Elizabeth Shields. Harriot Elizabeth Shields m (1st) Gerard J. Smith, (2nd) Atlas Jones Martin. Harriot and John were married 7/26/1843 and they had (1) daughter named Alice. Alice married Dr. Robert M. Cochran and had (3) children. Their daughter, Eleanor Bainbridge Cochran married William Page Molette. Eleanor Bainbridge Cochran and WIlliam Page Mollete had (2) sons, William Page Mollete and Robert Cochran Molette. Robert Cochran Molette married Viola. I grew up in Martin Station, ALabama which is near Molette's Bend. I used to go play there. The generation at that time was Bobby Molette and his wife Helen. He died very young and she was recently mordered (supposedly) by her 2nd husband - she was from Eufala, AL. They had 3 children, I believe. Robert, who was my brother's age - would be about 36 now - a younger boy named Page and, I believe, a baby girl. I can't remember her name and Helen and the children moved back to her hometown after her husband died. Don't know if this helps at all, but I emailed my father and asked him to "pick his brain." He is in his 70's and has known the Molette family all of his life - his parents and most probably grandparents and beyond were all friends with the Molette's. Harriot Elizabeth Shield's 2nd husband, Atlas Jone Martin, was my ggg-grandfather. Good luck. Fredreica Speyer PS. If anyone knows anyhting about the mother of Atlas Jones Martin, please let me know! His father was John Bethune Martin. Thanks. OAK6LEY@aol.com wrote: > >From information I have gathered my grt grandfather Charles Stonewall Jackson > MANN's maternal family was MOLETTE. The Molette family seem to have come to > Dallas Co around the 1820s from SC. They settled in an area near Orrvill > called MOLETTE'S BEND and from records several generations are buried there. > William P. Molette d. 1865 and wife Margaret Ann Ulmer Molette > John Ulmer Molette and Susan Caldwell Molette > Eliza Susan Mann Molette Harrison and 2nd husband William Henry Harrison. > > Eliza Susan Molette was born in 1848 & died in 1933 in Dallas Co. Does any > one know if wills are maintained from the 1930's at the court house? Also by > chance would wills from the 1870s be there? In 1935, Charles traveled to > Dallas Co to settle his part of Eliza's estate. My uncle who was 14 at the > time remembers going to Selma from Richmond ,VA , the lawyer's, the court > house and getting ice cream- as he put it "what 14 yr old worries with dead > people". > > I am trying to find the first husband of Eliza Molette--???? MANN. I have > all kinds of information on the family except her first husband. It seems > this husband died shortly after Charles was born abt 1871-1875 (everyone is > still trying to figure which year). We know that by age 4 Charles was living > in Berlin Germany- this is likely since Eliza's obit mentions that she > studied in Berlin after she graduated from Judson College. Eliza returned to > America but left Charles in Germany. When he return (unannounced ) in the > 1880s he found that his mother had remarried and that he had a half sister- > Kathleen Harrison Hammond Scott. > Charles did not stay in Dallas Co long from what he said- But he did say that > he had an Uncle Will he liked and that he worked a while at his Uncle's > newspaper where he learned some of the pressman trade. I think his Uncle > Will is William Page Molette- Eliza's brother and the paper he worked at > might have been the one once owned by his uncle by marriage Seaborn Jones > Saffold. > The only other thing Charles said about his family in Dallas Co was that his > father left him a plantation which was put in his mother's trust until he > became of age- > I am not sure if the plantation would have been in Dallas Co or in Montgomery > since Eliza lived in Montgomery for a period of time. But since she died in > Dallas Co and my uncle remembers going to the courthouse- it is a place to > start. > > Any ideas or info about county records would be great! > Thanks in advance > Sandra Mann Oakley