This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: brantley, groom, wilkinson, middleton, byrd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HU.2ADI/1621.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I'm not sure which John Massey he is or was. However, he was living in Texas about 15 years ago and researching families in the Old Texas/Pine Apple area. One of his parents was related to William L. Brantley from the Old Texas area. There was a story handed down in his family that every time the kids were sent 'across the creek to spend the night with Uncle Will' they would have a new brother or sister when they came back home. I think the parents were Charles G. Brantley and Nancy Euginia Robinson. I'm not sure of that but handwritten notes in the margin point to that family.That would mean the children were crossing the creek to stay with Uncle Will in the 1870s. The group sheets he gave me were researched and typed by a Mrs. Barnette Griffin Covan. Grant W. Johnston, Chico, CA