Thanks Dorothy! All I have on the house burning is a scribbled note from my mother about his houses in general (several) and all it says is 'burned 1890'. I'd known about it, just general family knowledge, but didn't know the date, and this date could refer to another house. The reason 1890 doesn't sound right to me is that Dr. Alexander died considerably before that in 1866, so the burning of a house in 1890 wouldn't really be Dr. Alexander's house and certainly wouldn't contain his father's family bible, I wouldn't think. So the search goes on... I thought I knew a lot about these Eutaw/Greene Co. folks, but I keep getting blind sided by something like this!!! Alice