Dear TOM, I am very interested in your AUSTIN families. I am still looking for some of the family from Laurens Co, besides Alexander AUSTIN the Rev War Soldier, who left SC and came to Lawrence and Morgan Co, AL. I have never known if Alexander was any relation to my John C. Austin b 1831. I have much information on what happened to Alexander after he came to Lawrence Co, AL and had a saddlry and farm and was prosperous. His son was a school teacher in one of the first schools on General Joe Wheeler's plantation. This part of the plantation originally belonged to Alexander. I have his Rev WAr pension application. A brother John, and perhaps a James is mentioned in some of the papers of Alexander. Does anyone know about them ? Alexander named his son James (the teacher). Alexander's other, known, child was a daughter who was mentally handicapped and had to have someone to take care of her, all her life. My John's parents must have been born in the upcountry of SC about1800, I am not positive if it is Laurens, Greenville, Fairfield, or Spartanburg. They stopped in TN in 1831 when John Calhoun Austin was born. John was living in Morgan Co, AL, operating a grist mill for his in-laws, Isaac EDWARDS and George LOTT, Jr. by 1854. But, I can't find him on the 1850 census in AL, TN or other ?