At 04:31 PM 7/17/2004, Teri Tillman wrote: >Derick, > >Thank you for your response. I am glad to have the parentage of Levi W. >Stallings confirmed. The Rinck-Stallings connection is now clear. What is >not clear is why George Lagle was living with the Rincks in 1870. Something >may turn up later that makes this connection obvious. > >You mentioned that you believed that Ransom C. Lail was the son of George >Lagle and Ann Melissa Starnes, and that he married May Sue Miller. Do you >recall your source for this? > I think the Lale family tree (in the Lagle / >Lale family book) indicates that a Ransom A. Lail, son of Ransom C. Lail, >married a Mary Miller. I did not see a marriage record for either of them in >the Catawba County marriage records that have been published. > >Thanks again for your help. > >Teri Tillman I used the date "before 1883" as an estimate for the Mary Sue Miller marriage. The marriage may have been performed in Burke or Caldwell Co., NC There are at least five Ransom Lails in my database. The brief research I have done doesn't shed any more light on them. There are obvious discrepancies in the several trees I have studied. I wish I had the time to try and get the mess straightened out. --Derick