From: Helen Austin, Decatur, AL [email protected] Without looking up in my file, but just from memory (which is sometimes fallible), I have seen something about the Thomas M. J. AUSTIN who was a (grain?) inspector at the docks on the TN River at Huntsville, Madison Co, AL. I also saw a mention of his death in a publication that was Old Newspapers of AL (or a similar title) telling of his death while he was on a trip. I hope I am correct. I will have to look this up. I need to keep in touch with you because there are some similarities in your AUSTIN and mine. Do, you know from the census whether your Thomas had parents who were born in SC ? My John C. AUSTIN b 1831 came to North AL, Morgan Co. before 1845, but I have not found him on the 1850 census. Just the marriage of his sister, Nancy AUSTIN in Morgan Co. John's parents were both born in SC but I have never been able to identify them. His first son was named Thomas J. L. AUSTIN b 1859 in Morgan Co, AL. John's 1st wife was Elizabeth EDWARDS, his second was her sister, Mary Easter EDWARDS, his third was Margaret HENDERSON SIMMONS. His other children were named Francis Marion 1857, died as infant, Mary Easter 1861,Isaac Samuel 1867, John Harvey 1876, LUTHER Demarcus 1879, Eunice Lee Josephine 1892, George Reason 1895, Arthur Ambers 1897. Therefore I have been looking