This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0hG.2ACEB/17.21.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Adrian, Most certainly we are related and I may have met you at my father's funeral in May of 2004. Ernie was there with his family and if Ernie is your father I most likely snapped your photo with the rest of your family. I am Cynthia and Rhonda's brother. We moved to Tampa from Auburn about 1954. Robert Harvey Burel is a point of interest in family history for me because he died at 106 years when I was 12 years old. I remember attending his 100th birthday celebration. RHB was about 9 years old when Sherman's army marched on Atlanta. Union troops camped on or about his homestead. So anyone who has ever met RHB can say they have met an eyewitness to Sherman's march on Atlanta. I think this is what they call, "in living memory". It is an important aspect in understanding the southern mind. My father remembered RHB's mother talking about going to slave auctions. The family didn't own slaves but the auctions apparently were attractions because of the drama of slave families getting torn apart. Butch