At 10:55 AM 7/6/2000 EDT, you wrote: >My Surnames in Sumter County are: > GREEN, HOLDER, JONES, JONES, BEAN, LEWIS, WALKER, ALLEN, LANIER [John >Lanier d. 1844 Sumter], TOWNLEY, Lucy [wife of John LANIER] WEBB, ABNEY[mid >1800's] ROAN [mid 1800's] > > Lynda Greene Allen > Hi Lynda, Now, this is a real reach, but Robert R. Shelton (b 5-23-1796 VA, d 1-8-1870 York, AL) middle name was Roan. Any signs of family connections on that line? I haven't run across that name very much in the areas I have searched. Al Willard