Sheryn, I sure hope one of your questions for Gaye is "Why did so many of our Newton/Neshoba, MS Barretts move to Monroe, LA?" This has always intrigued me, but I have never had an answer. Perry Lysander Barrett (s/o Wm. Grant Barrett) had too many mouths to feed in MS. At one point, about 1910, he was trying to feed over 20 women and children -- all of them his children, grandchildren, nieces & nephews. When she was 16, my grandmother was sent to Columbus, GA to work in a cotton mill. Eventually, her brother, all her sisters, her mother (Lillie Leona Barrett McCarty) and Perry Lysander Barrett followed her there. My father remembers that they were a very close knit family. He says that, if it had been possible, they would have all lived on the same city block. I guess you could say that better food and shelter caused these Barretts to move from MS to GA. Ann Cummings