This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: AUTRY, TILLERY, GUNTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/idB.2ACEB/237.1.1 Message Board Post: You know, I think you are right. We did correspond on the Autry line. And I got so disgusted trying to find out anything beyond my great-grandfather that I quit for many years. Believe it or not, I'm still almost as much in the dark about my John Autry. When I corresponded with you before, I thought John AUTRY's wife was Sarah BOATRIGHT, but as it turned out her name was Sarah Ann TILLERY, b 1819 SC. They had apparently one son only, William Henry Harrison AUTRY, b 31 Dec 1841 in Edgefield District, SC. (He often went by Harrison.) John AUTRY must have died sometime between 1840-44, and Sarah remarried John Larkin GUNTER(went by Larkin). Their first child was born in Dec of 1844 in SC. Harrison AUTRY gave his father's place of birth as TN in the 1880 Census, and his mother b SC. I still haven't thrown out the possibility that he(John) was also married to a Sarah BOATRIGHT. As for him being in Tippah Co.,Miss. in 1840--it is possible, he seemed to move about enough to keep me from being able to find him in any census with Sarah. Maybe I need to be checking out the census in Miss. since I can't find them in SC yet. It sure would have made it easier now, if the census records before 1850 had listed the names of wives. Thanks for the reply, I will give Tippah Co.,Miss. a try. Hope your own research has gone very well during the past years.

I would like the information you have on Sara Ann Tillery of S. C. I have a lot of Tillerys in my family from that area. Juanita Autry wja4032@donobi.net