This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sylar, Fant, Lovelace, Lovelis, Loveless, Roden, Blair, Rhodes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jV.2ADE/21.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Gosh, we might be connected. Here's the story: Mary Sylar Fant was the daughter of my great-great grandfather, Andrew Lafayette Sylar (1833 - 1887) and his first wife, Rebecca Amanda Rhodes (1840 - 1863). Rebecca died just 3 days after Mary was born. It was in the middle of the Civil War, and Andrew came home on leave from the CSA for Rebecca's funeral and most likely to see about his family. He overstayed his leave and when he returned to his unit, he was busted down to private. Andrew was later taken prisoner by the Union forces at the battle of Helena on July 4, 1863. He stayed in the prison at Alton, Illinois until the end of the war. I've been trying to find out more about Mary, since I know very little. I found her on the 1900 census for Lee county, married to Harrison Roden. They have been married 21 years. She has had 4 children, but only one is living. I can't tell just from that record whether this child is Tom Lovelace/Loveless, who is the step-son of Harrison Roden, or Robert Eli Roden. Maybe they are both her children, but then again, maybe not. So Mary might have been married to a Lovelace/Loveless/Lovelis before marrying Harrison Roden. She married a Fant at some time, because that is the name she had at the death of her half-brother, Richard Sylar. So I know almost nothing about the Fant family, but have ordered Mary's death certificate and will certainly let you know what I find out. I will try to find her obit the next time I'm at the University of Arkansas library. As for my Blair family, they were in North-central Arkansas (Searcy County) from before 1850, and nowhere near Lee County, so we might only be connected via the mysterious Fants. I have a Sylar family tree posted on rootsweb at: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sylarfamily/ Thanks for replying! - Heather