Hi, This is a long query, so I'll list all the surnames mentioned in it and you can hit the delete button if you're not interested: Sessions, Loa, Womack, Kilburn, Hawkins, Tolleson, Lackey, Calvert, Croy, Sims, Nelson and Ramsey. The following is a paper I've written as part of a research project for the Scott County Historical & Genealogical Society in which I am researching each of the families listed on the 1900 Scott County census who were living in Parks Township. My question is: The 1962 obituary of John F. and Dialtha (Womack) Sessions daughter Sarah (who married John Bell Hawkins) lists one of her two surviving brothers as B.J. Sessions of Houston, Texas. The other was Bob Sessions of Bakersfield, California and must have been her youngest brother, Robert Bonnie Sessions. WHO WAS B.J. SESSIONS???? Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. The Sessions story follows: JOHN F. SESSIONS FAMILY #90/102 Sessions, John F. Hd Apr 1851 49 Md/29yrs AR GA IL Dialtha T. Wf Jun 1855 44 10/8 AR TN TN Loy F. Son Aug 1888 11 AR TN AR Minie Dau May 1892 8 AR AR TN Lora C. Dau Oct 1894 5 AR AR TN Robert B. Son Oct 1898 1 AR AR TN John F. Sessions was born 7 May 1852 in Scott County, the son of James A. and Lucinda (Loa) Sessions. His parents both died when he was a child and he was raised by first one and then another family, as were his brother and three sisters. He married Dialtha Tennessee Womack about 1871, probably in Scott County. Dialtha was born in 1854 in Lawrence County, Tennessee, the daughter of James Wiley and Hannah (Kilburn) Womack. Her parents came to Scott County along with the Kilburns in the late 1850s, stopping for a short time in Missouri. She was also orphaned at an early age and was brought up by relatives. John F. Sessions was a merchant at Boles and was appointed postmaster there in 1889. He was a minister of the Freewill Baptist Church, as was his brother Robert. John died 4 July 1918 and Dialtha died in 1940. Both are buried at the Buffalo Cemetery at Boles. Their children, all born in Scott County, were: 1Sarah P. Sessions, born 18 June 1872. She married John Bell Hawkins 11 December 1887 at Boles. She died at Heavener, LeFlore County, Oklahoma 27 February 1962 and is buried at Buffalo Cemetery at Boles. (See Dwelling #210/232 in this series.) 2Elizabeth E. Sessions, born October 1876, according to the 1900 census. She married Lorenzo Dow Tolleson 28 August 1892 at Boles. (See Dwelling #16/18 of the Mountain Township series.) 3William F. Sessions, born 18 December 1877. He married Cora F. Lackey 20 November 1898 at Boles. He was a physician and died 3 February 1958 and is buried at the Lackey Cemetery, Hitchita, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. (See Dwelling #208/230 of this series.) 4Joy Jane Sessions, born 18 January 1881 and died 22 August 1883. She is buried at the Buffalo Cemetery at Boles. She is one of the two children listed as deceased on the 1900 census above. 5Frances L. Sessions, born c1884. She married William Calvert 27 April 1898 at Boles. She died in 1939 and is buried at the Lackey Cemetery, Hitchita, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. (See Dwelling #18/20 of the Mountain Township series.) 6Lucy Jane Sessions, born 19 January 1888 and died 22 June 1891. She is buried at the Buffalo Cemetery at Boles. She is the second of the two children listed as deceased on the 1900 census above. 7Loy F. Sessions, born c1889. He married Mary Ella Croy 10 June 1906 in Scott County. They are found on the 1910 Scott County census at Mountain Township. Mary Ella had borne one child and it had died. No further information. 8Minnie M. Sessions, born May 1892, according to the 1900 census. She married Charles M. Sims 15 August 1909 in Scott County. On the 1920 Scott County census they were living in Mountain Township in the village of Boles and had four children: Ray, age 11; John, age 9; Audry, age 6 and Geraldine, age 3. In 1962 when Sarah (Sessions) Hawkins died, Minnie Sims was listed in her obituary as living at Hitchita, Oklahoma. 9Lora C. Sessions, born October 1894, according to the 1900 census. She married Joe W. Nelson 27 October 1913 in Scott County. In 1962 she was living in Hitchita, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. 10Robert Bonnie Sessions, born October 1898, according to the 1900 census. He married Ozie Ramsey 18 January 1920 in Scott County. He is listed on the 1920 Scott County census in Mountain Township, Dwelling #59/60, living at home with his widowed mother, who is listed as D.T. Shessings. In 1962 he was living in Bakersfield, Kern County, California. The parents of John F. Sessions, the James A. Sessions family, is first found on the Scott County census of 1850, enumerated in Hickman Township. The wife, Lucinda, and the children are listed as mulattos on that census. The Goodspeed article tells us that James and Lucinda's marriage took place in Mountain Township of Scott County. The same source informs that James had come to Arkansas as an agent to the Creek Indians and that he also acted as an interpreter "...being well acquainted with the Creek, Choctaw and Cherokee languages..." It is very likely that Lucinda was an Indian, rather than a mulatto. Indians and others were often listed on the early census records as mulattos. Both James and Lucinda died around 1860 and according to the Goodspeed article left five children: 1Eliza J. Sessions who married David Ausmus; 2Permelia Ann Sessions who married J.H. Blackwell; 3Robert E. Sessions who married Zelpha Elizabeth Wo-mack; 4John F. Sessions (subject of this story) and 5Sarah Sessions who married Compton Hollis. On the 1860 Scott County census, only two of these Sessions children are found: Robert, age 11, was living with the E.H. Densmore family in Tomlinson Township. Sarah Sessions, age 5, was living with the John H. and Malinda Blackwell family in Mountain Township. The other three children are not found on the census but may have been enu-merated under the surnames of the families with whom they were living. Sources: Goodspeed Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas, 1891 Amos Kilburn-Henry McGee, Aleene Shubert & Omer McGee, 1991 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 census of Scott County, Arkansas Scott County Marriage Records A,B,C,D,E, Scott Co. Historical & Genealogical Society