This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rlhsc Surnames: LOLLEY,MANSELL,McCAIG,COLE,SANDERS,KENEDY Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.marion/2298/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'd like to make some clarifications of an earlier post, I had several "facts" wrong, and although I'm embarrassed, I'll take this as a learning experience. One thing I've learned is to not always rely on family memories, and also to check and double check "facts". Now having said that, after I post the corrected info., I would still like feedback on some additional info. I've found. First things first, I was told we had Native American ancestry, I assumed Cherokee, because, when doing a search, on who I THOUGHT was my g-grandpa, MONROE LOLLEY, it directly linked him to a Cherokee woman, MORNING DOVE WHITE(MANSELL), and her mom, MOURNING FLOWERS. Turns out, MONROE, isn't my g-grandpa, but the nephew of my g-grandpa, FREEMAN LOLLEY. The reason I assumed that wrong relationship, is because I have always been told that my g-grandpas' middle name was MONROE, so when I found his name, I just went with it. Huge Mistake. For the record, I still have always been told we had Native American, Black Dutch, and Scotts-Irish ancestry. 2nd mistake- I had some of the relationships wrong, the corrected info: HENRY LOLLEY married AMERICA (COLE) LOLLEY, their son was my g-grandpa, FREEMAN LOLLEY, and JAMES JOSEPH LOLLEY was FREEMANs' brother(not dad). MONROE was the son of JAMES JOSEPH LOLLEY, and the nephew of my g-grandpa. 3rd mistake-My mother told me that my g-grandpa had a 2nd family, and that she'd met them as a child, first off, my mother is disabled and gets confused sometimes, and I shouldn't have taken her words as gospel, until I did some fact checking. I said that my g-grandpa was married to a woman with the last name KENEDY, but in reality, it was MONROE who had a wife named LINNEY KENNEDY, my g-grandma is ETHEL(McCAIG)LOLLEY. I'm sure my mother did meet up with different relatives, etc. in Hackleburg, but it wasn't a "2nd" family. another reason I took to that info. so readily is that (unless I'm wrong, yikes), is that both MONROE, and FREEMAN supposedly died in March 1990, like I said that too could be wrong. So I kinda believed I was speaking of the same person. I was correct in the names of the children, FREEMAN and ETHEL had, and the names of the children my grandmother, GLADYS had, whew! Now, what I need help fact checking on is the ancestry of my g-grandma, ETHEL, I'll try not to get too confusing. When I did the search on the wrong name, MONROE, it said he was related to ELVIS PRESLEY, they both shared the same 3rd g-grandma, Morning Dove White. Well when I did a search on my g-grandma, ETHEL McCAIG LOLLEY, it too, says she's related to ELVIS, but that it's because they share grandpas, 9th g-gr.pa for ETHEL, and 8th g-gr.pa for ELVIS, it goes like this, atleast when you see if the name your searching is related to someone famous: 9th G-Grandpa of ETHEL McCAIG-----8th G-Grandpa of ELVIS **WILLIAM POWELL** (THE LEFT COLUMN DOWNWARD) (THE RIGHT COLUMN DOWNWARD) his son, GEORGE POWELL his daughter,ALICE POWELL his daughter, AGNES POWELL her son, Robert Warren her daughter, AGNES COCKE His son, ROBERT WARREN her son, JOSEPH HARWOOD his son, S.JOHN WARREN his daughter, REBECCA HARWOOD his son, WILLIAM D. WARREN her daughter, MARY LONGBOTTOM his dtr.,MARY L. WARREN her daughter, JEAN McGEE her dtr., MINNIE MAE HOOD her son, JESSE McGEE her son, VERNON PRESLEY his son, WILLIAM McGEE his son, ELVIS PRESLEY his son, PINKNEY RAY McCAIG *why is Pinkneys' last name diff.? his daughter, ETHEL McCAIG **Now I know why the Genealogists should get the big bucks!! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.