This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mitchell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hV.2ADE/13.226.1047 Message Board Post: The A.J. Bench family was orginally from Coal Hill in Johnson County Ark and he married two sisters of the Mitchell family then moved to Texas. I don't know anything more than that. Maybe there is a connections.