This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Branson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kdF.2ACIB/345.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Don't know what state your Stokes Co. is in, but all my data would relate to either Sangamon or Fulton Co. IL. The original Eli did not have any children by the name of Zachariah. Nor did his son John have a child by that name. The rest of original Eli's children seemed to stay in the Carolinas.