I found a family of Kay's living in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama in the Western District on page 600 of the 1860 census. They were on line 43-42. They were: JOHN T. KAY, age 35, male, Farm Manager, born in Georgia. REBECCA KAY, age 27, female, born in South Carolina JAMES KAY, age 8, male, born in Georgia ______KAY, age 5, male, born in Alabama [ seemed strange to just be a blank MARY V. KAY, age 1, born in Alabama. Then I found a JOHN T. KAY, Civil War Soldiers records--Confederate side, infantry, 41st Regiment, Alabama Infantry. I would like to find someone who is a descendant of this family or might know something about them. I think that JOHN T. KAY could be my GGG Grandfather. My GG Grandmother was EMMA MALISSA KAY who was born on August 12, 1862 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. according to our Bible records. She had a brother named ELIJAH KAY who was born in 1861 in Alabama and they had a little sister named LUCY KAY who was born in Sept. of 1865 who was mentally retarded caused by a high fever. I know that there were two older sisters also at least if not others. EMMA KAY and her sister LUCY KAY were taken in by the family of JOSEPH EARLY LITTLE and raised after being orphaned. The Little's also lived in Alabama during the Civil War time. The Little's had 6 sons. One of the older sons, JOHN W. LITTLE married two of Emma Kay's sisters. One of them was named MARY KAY and he and Mary had a son named JOE LITTLE. He was also married to another Kay sister but no one seems to know what her name was. I think he was married to her before marrying Mary and this other sister died and he then married Mary Kay. All of the Little family moved to Mississippi, mostly to Chickasaw Co., Miss. and Mary Kay Little died there and John W. Little married two more times in his lifetime. The rest of the Little family moved to Milam County, Texas but John W. Little was the only one to stay in Mississippi. EMMA KAY married the youngest son of JOSEPH EARLY LITTLE and his wife SALINA DODSON LITTLE. His name was RICHARD NEWMAN LITTLE. Emma and Newman Little were my Great Great Grandparents. JOHN T. KAY and his family are the only Kay's that I can find in Tusculoosa Co., Ala. in 1860 and their youngest daughter was named Mary so I am thinking that maybe this could be the long lost parents of my Emma Malissa Kay. I found Elijah Kay, age 8 in the 1870 census in Bibb County, Ala. living with a family named Griffin or Griffith. He was the right age to be our Elijah Kay. I also found a little girl named Lucy Kay, the same age as our Lucy living with an ELIZABETH KAY who was a little older then REBECCA KAY was and this Elizabeth Kay was also born in South Carolina. This was in Perry Co., Ala. in the 1870 census. There was an older girl also living there named Martha Kay. I am wondering if this could be the other sister who married John W. Little? I could not find Emma in the 1870 census with the Little's or anywhere. This Elizabeth Kay who had Lucy and Martha was living right next door to the family of Joseph Early Little who eventually raised Emma and Lucy Kay. I don't know what the relationship was between Elizabeth Kay and the others in her household. This is all that I know about this Kay family except that my great uncle told me that he thought that his grandmother, Emma Kay Little, had told him that her family came from England or he said it could have been Ireland but he thought it was England. A lot of Kays did come from England so I think that is likely. Any help on this family would be much appreciated. Jane Little McEndree janemc@airmail.net