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    1. Re: [ARBENTON] Smith/Luke/Budd/ Martin reasearch
    2. You are so welcome. I will send you some information now on the Bryan's and McClures as they relate to my mother's family that I am glad to share with you. I hope you find there is a connection. The Bryans (Charles and Mildred ) raised my grandmother, Ruth Elizabeth Hawkins, after her mother, Sarah Clementine (Lasiter) Hawkins died, when my grandmother Ruth was an infant. The Bryans raised my grandmother Ruth as foster parents and the McClures raised my mother as a foster child when my grandmother Ruth had twins after having my mother and then had another set of twins several years later. The connection to the Bryans was that my great grandfather (Dr. Alexander Stephens Hawkins) was married to their daughter Mary Bryan before he married my grandmother's mother, Sarah Clementine Lasiter. Sarah C. Lasiter's father was Wm. Lasiter and her mother was Susannah Mariah (Rogers) Lasiter. Susanna Mariah Rogers' parents were Dean Rogers and Purity (Davidson) Rogers. * See my "I need help" on the ARBenton-L rootsweb page for more Davidson, Rogers, Martin information. Mrs. McClure was the sister of Mary (Mammie) Bryan and the daughter of Mildred Bryan who was my Grandmother's foster mother. The McClures had no children of their own. As you can see it all turns into a family matter over generations with no one being blood kin but Mary (Mammie) Bryan and her Mother, Mildred Bryan and Mrs. W.D. McClure's who was also Mildred Bryan's daughter. My mother call Mrs. McClure Aunt Toddy. I do not have a real first name for her. I believe Mildred Bryan was a Wear before she married Charles Bryan. They lived first in Cassville, Barry Co., MO. Then Claremore, Coo Coos Wee Coo District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory or what is now Claremore, Rogers County, OK. I have so very old books that were my grandmother's that my mother had that I ended up getting when my parents died. Some of these I gave to my brother who was named after the families, Bryan McClure Kinney. Three last names. I told you this complicated. Ruth

    06/28/2005 04:02:06