Bobbye Davis, This won't answer your WILLIAMS, GALLOWAY question, but I'd like to say that I have had a slightly different one for a long time. My great-grandparents, Irvin and Nancy WALDEN WILLIMS lived in Shelby County, Texas, at the time of the 1880 census. They had a large family of their own but on that census they had a six month old infant named Thomas GALLOWAY in their household. The census taker identified the child as "boarder." When I began research, no older family member could suggest any identity or relationship between the WILLIAMS and GALLOWAYS. In the same community but nine housecalls away is a WHIDDEN family. In their household is a 21 year old man also named Thomas GALLOWAY. His occupation is Farm Loborer, but his relationship to that family also is listed as "Boarder." I have wondered if he was a young man whose wife had died and my great-grandparents were giving him a hand with the infant. In 1850, Irvin and Nancy WALDEN WILLIAMS were living in Henry County, Alabama. They went from there with the WALDEN family to Walton County, Florida. They later went on to Texas where Irvin's WILLIAMS family was established. The adult Thomas GALLOWAY of 1880 has no birth records recorded on the census. The infant Thomas GALLOWAY was said to have been born in Texas, his father in Alabama and his mother in Louisiana. Several families are known to have moved from Henry County, Alabama, to Shelby County, Texas. Irvin WILLIAMS had been born in Georgia. His family moved to Alabama when he was a child. Later they went to Texas. When he was grown, Irvin WILLIAMS "returned to Alabama." As he was a young newly-wed in Henry County in 1850, it seems logical that that might be where he had lived previously, but I can find no record of his family having been there. Nor can I find Irvin's and Nancy's marriage record. .Subject: [ALHENRY] WILLIAMS/GALLOWAY/ AKINS/BARRENTINE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am searching for information on Mary Ann GALLOWAY who married Wilson C WILLIAMS on March 13,824 in Henry Co. Alabama. Who are her parents and where and when was she born? We have three sons only at this time. Robert J.. who remained in Al. William Norman (my gg grand father) who migrated to Lauderdale. Al.and Abraham Fletcher who migrated to Sumter Co. Fl. Are there any more children we are missing? Wilson was married to #2 Jane Akins she brought children into the marriage from her previous marriage to a Barrentine. She had Wilson did not have any children. [email protected]