Rick, I don't know whether this will help or not. My 3x great-grandfather was Lindsey Mabry Burney. I have Lindsey's family well documented, so I know your James Samuel Burney is not in his family. However, he had a brother, Morrison Burney who settled in Georgia, very close to the Alabama line; his family is not one that I have documented. It could be that you might need to pursue lines there, as well as Alabama. However, I do need to add that both Lindsey and Morrison were born in North Carolina, not Alabama. Sharon