This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JS.2ADE/306.499.534.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: It could well be that there is no continuation. My Thomas Kelly Armstrong was in Manak in 1890's. He was married to Dora. I found no death record for him, but some badly abused and mostly illegible probate records for Dora. My Tom appears to have "brokered" marriages for three Irish nieces including my great grandmother. Family story is that he was either postmaster at Manak, or an overseer of some significant enterprise. All is fuzzy on how he got there. The Loundes county 1850 census shows an Armstrong Family in the county with a 12 year old son named Thomas, but all traces of then disappear before 1860. I found a clippong about a writ of execution (debt collection) against Tom Armstrong in the 1850's but no supporting judgment of anything to tie it together except the disappearance. There is an alabama appelate court opinion In re Rambo that makes a reference to a Loundes county Armstrong in the 1950's it involved an accounting for the use of a slave. I do not have the citation. I wish that I had hard information!