This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Merchant Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JS.2ADE/638.637.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm not sure if we're releted. I don't have a Isaac or Isaiah in my records, but this has been a very hard family line for me to trace. Were your Merchants in Lowndes Co. and what was the time frame? I descend from Mercer Merchant who moved to Lowdnes Co. from Edgefield SC. His father was Richard Merchant. Mercer ahd several brothers. Maybe Isaac is his brother. Do you happen to know who Harriet Merchant's parents were? She married John Ealum. The Ealums seemed to have moved about the same time Mercer's family did (before 1840). They settled in Butler Co. Any help on the Merchants is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Tonia Porter