Dear readers, Yet another mystery BRAZIL has surfaced from the Reconstruction Period in Bastrop County, Texas. Along with the MOSES BRAZIL family of Saline County who moved to Texas the year before, the 1870 Bastrop schedules contain:\ Household 2007-2133, Page 290 August 5, 1870 BRAZLL, SQUIRE 35WM Farm Laborer ARK KATHA 20WF Keeps House ARK M.A. 9WM TN A.J. 6WF TN R.H. 1WM TX SQUIRE's family lived 33 households away from WILLIAM and NANCY BRAZIL COX, 96 away from MOSES and MATILDA ALLEN BRAZIL. >From this and related evidence, I draw the following conclusions. See if you agree: 1) SQUIRE was a hitherto unidentified descendant of RICHARD BRAZIL, JR (c.1790-1860's) and MARY ANN ALLEN BRAZIL, named for his Grandfather SQUIRE ALLEN (1765-1842). He is not to be confused with SQUIRE ALLEN BRAZIL (1841-1860's), son of MOSES and MATILDA ALLEN BRAZIL, who died of measles while in Confederate service. 2) From the birthplaces of his children and the age difference with his wife, it seems reasonable to infer that SQUIRE and his first wife were in Tennessee during the Civil War, that she died and he returned to Arkansas after the war (in whichever order), and that he then married KATHA and came out to Texas in 1869 with MOSES BRAZIL and certain members of the ANDREW JACKSON BRAZIL family. Speaking of "Jackson" BRAZIL's orphans, I checked Bastrop County marriages yesterday and found no marriage for JESSE "Big Jess" BRAZIL {surviving twin son of Jackson's born c.1858 in Saline County). I reported previously his presence in 1880 in the Bastrop County household of WILLIAM J. NIXON, 54, and his wife and six daughters ranging in age from 6 to 23. So "Big Jess" (evidently) didn't "marry the farmer's daughter" even though he had plenty to choose from! Surely somebody somewhere is looking for these long lost BRAZILs.... Carey