>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