This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hale, Reed, Cossey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xV.2ADE/577.1 Message Board Post: My name is Loren E. Hale. My gggrandfather was William Pinkney Hale b. 1830 TN. Married in Searcy county AR in 1848. Lots of data since but cannot find his TN born parents. William P. Hale did have a son, George B. Hale also of Searcy county. Could the William you mentioned be mine.