This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/plC.2ACEB/230.232.450.499.1.2.1 Message Board Post: The information presented is very interesting and definatly a lot more research needs to be done. William Thomas Beasley is my great grandfather, he was gospel preacher and from what my mother tells me, he was very devout..I do not believe he would fabricate the story..I feel he is refering to the dates in the bible when he stated "he got the information from the bible" and not the Pitts story. I believe he was told this story by his Uncle and aside from word of mouth, that I can find, he had no other source info. I'm not ready to discard the whole idea but this is definatly an example of why word of mouth isn't always that great of a source.