This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ables, Beavers, Casteel, Harmon, Stutts, Thomasson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RAD.2ACEB/492 Message Board Post: I am researching my wife's side of the family. I have a John J W Ables who married Mary A Stutts in Cross County, Arkansas...they had a son James W Felix Ables b:1871 who married Fannie Maud Thomasson (both are buried in St Francis County Arkansas). I believe Mary A Stutts (b:Jan 1, 1847) had a brother named Willis Russell Stutts (b:1849)...their parents Christian Christopher Stutts and Charlotte Beavers. Willis Russell Stutts married Frances Elizabeth Casteel, they had about 9 children...one of them being "Mattie Bell" Stutts who married John Lewis Harmon (died shortly after 1914 in Cross County, I think they are both buried at Union Grove Cemetery, Cross County, Arkansas)...Mattie Bell and John Lewis are my wife's grandparents...any connections ? Sure hope this rings a bell, any assistance is greatly appreciated. Will gladly assist in any way I can. Sincerely, Jim Powers