Greetings Roger, Scan through your last message and meet me at the bottom. > While it's fresh.. > I stopped by the New Prospect Freewill Baptist Church cemetery , Reverend Bobby > Register, Pastor in Edwin AL (Henry or Barbour? County) today and found the > following information on these adjacent monuments: > > Malcom Mathison b. Oct 11, 1813 d. June 24, 1897 > Eliza wife of M.Mathison b Oct. 23 -- d. Sept 17, 1905 > Rev. Elias Mathison b. July 11, 1853 d. June 7, 1899 > MOTHER Mary J.Guilford b. March 4, 1851 d. July 2, 1899 > > Mary J. Guilford must have been the wife of William Everett Guilford..her > children called her Mollie..William and Mollie were married May 11, 1868 in > Henry County. I do not know where the name Tabitha Mathison come from although I > saw some information that she married William Guilford in 1868.. > Regards: > Roger My mistake. I appear to have been following a misled geneology report of another Mathison relative that listed Tabitha as the wife of William Guilford. But, alas, we are still cousins! If you check page 314 of Helon Cutler's "Henry County Alabama Marriage Records 1821-1901 Vol. II" you will see that William E. Guilford married Mary J. Mathison on May 11, 1869. Mary is Tabitha's younger sister...and a daughter of Malcolm. I wonder why Mary was called "Mollie"? How much do you know about her? Your cousin, Steve