To Cynthia >From Helen Austin of Decatur, AL I am sending you this message in response to your queries on the Austin-L. There are several names of interest to me. First, I have been looking for a possible link in Fairfield Co, SC (or Laurens, Spartanburg, or Greenville Co, SC) for my John Calhoun AUSTIN b 1831 TN. Both his parents were born SC ca 1790-1810. I have looked at the Fairfield and Greenville and Laurens Co. Austin families for 1790-1830 for possible parents of our John. I have had no luck in locating proofs of parentage for John. John was in Morgan Co, AL by 1854 as was a possible sister Nancy Austin who married William Lott, a son of George Lott of Fairfield Co, SC. John married two grand-daughters of this George Lott. They were Elizabeth EDWARDS SWANN and Mary Easter EDWARDS. After John moved to the adjoining counties of Winston and Lawrence to the present-day Bankhead NAtional Forest, he married a widow, Margaret HENDERSON SIMMONS in 1894. First names of the sons of John AUSTIN were: Thomas J. L. b 1859 disappeared before 1870); Johnnie (d as infant); Isaac Samuel (named for Isaac Edwards, gfather); John Harvey; Luther Demarcus; George Reason; Arthur Ambrose(Ambers) b 1897. Names of daughters of John C. AUSTIN were: Mary Easter (named for mother/aunt); Eunice b 1894 m David Edmund NICHOLS. Neighbors of John in the North Alabama area which link eventually to the Austin families are: desc of Wm. Nichols, Rev War Vet; Sims, Hill, (in Pinhook Valley of Lawrence Co, AL) It is the surnames you mention and many neighbors from SC that make me want to ask if you have any families in these three counties of North Alabama? [email protected]