This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blackshear, Conrad Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1NE.2ACIB/1.91.137.1.2 Message Board Post: My great grandmother was Louvenia Blackshear; I believe that she was mulatto, although she is listed as black in one census and white in others. She had LA listed as her birthplace (b. abt 1862) and I believe the initials of two of her brothers was "J." and "B." The older brother may be named James B. Blackshear. I am searching for proof of Louvenia's racial makeup and the names of her parents. She married Henry Clay Conrad in Lincoln Co., AR in 1880.