Thanks for the reply, Rebecca. The Mary Sawyer that you referenced is not the person that I am looking for information on. Mary who married my great grandfather's brother, had an "S" on the end of the name and she died while married to Matthew. The 1850 census shows her name to be Monen. This is an error. Her name was Mary as witnessed by their marriage license and Matthew called her "Mourning" (not Monen) in his Civil War Pension records. She had a child living in the household of Matthew Hasty (Haisty) in the 1850 census of Drew County, AR, who was named Eliza Jane Sawyers (age12) and there was a child also in the household named Henry (no last name). There were several children in the household - in Springhill Township - who were not identified and none of them, including the above mentioned Eliza Jane, were children of Matthew Haisty. Who they all were is a continuing problem. Mary Sawyers was born in South Carolina. Two houses away from Matthew (36) and Mary (Mourning)(38) was an Alexander Sawyers (35) also born in South Carolina, his wife Pervilla J. (20) born in Tennessee and a child Lafayette age 2. I have land record for Alexander Sawyers. One unanswered question is: Was Mary (Mourning) Sawyers the sister or sister-in-law of Alexander Sawyers. Since she had a child identified as a daughter in their household and that child was not Matthew Haisty's child, indications are that Mary was a widow. On the 16th of August, 1857 Eliza Jane Sawyers married Henry P. Johns in Desha Co., AR. The other Haisty brothers lived at Selma and Matthew most likely had moved there from Springhill TWP. Selma was in Desha Co. at the time of this marriage. Age is correct for both of them to be the Eliza J. listed as Mary's daughter in the 1850 census and Henry P. Johns the Henry (no last name) also in the household in 1850. Perhaps someone will recognize the names Alexander and Lafayette Sawyers or Henry P. Johns and can give me some clues. The Shewmake connection comes in with Matthew Haisty's second marriage. He married Delaney (Shewmake) Simmons, a widow on Christmas Day in 1853. Delaney was the mother of Matthew's only surviving child Mary Emeline Haisty, born in April of 1857 in Drew Co., who married William Fielder Scroggins in Conway County, Arkansas in December of 1890. Matthew and Delaney had a child named Christopher born @ 1859 or 60. He apparently died as an infant. There was a third child, but no record of that child. Matthew and Delaney Haisty, with Mary Emeline and Delaney's two sons by Edward Simmons, Alexander B. Simmons and Jesse M. T. Simmons, moved to Conway County - Solgohachia - apparently because of his Union sympathy. He joined the Union Army at Lewisburg. Some of the Shewmake family also went there and also enlisted with Matthew. The families of the two Haisty brothers who stayed in Drew County never had contact with Matthew's family again. John and James Haisty were Confederate soldiers. With the help of Judy Hightower of this list, I have filled in lots of holes. Her husband is of the Shewmake - Denton line. I have given her some things from the Haisty side that have filled in things for her as well. I really need help on the Sawyers. There was a Jennie V. Sawyers going to school at Selma in 1927 when my mother taught there. I have the "will" of that senior class and Jennie V. is listed. None of my cousins or people from the area that I have talked with know who Jennie V. was. Anyone?????? I was aware of the Dr. Shewmake mentioned in Old Times. Just wondered if someone knew of descendants of the marriage listed in my post. Thanks for any and all help. Carolyn jhaisty@tcac.com