This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis , Shaw, Maynard, Henry , Chandler, Russell, Rose Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iUI.2ACIB/1735.1.1.1 Message Board Post: John Bethel was married a couple of times He was raised by Nancy and James W . James , they had several children of their own. I believe he was born in WV. He moved with them around 1859 and is on the 1860 Carroll Tenn. Census. Also on the 1870's Carroll Co. Census but with a wife Mary, George L. and sister Elizabeth. Elizabeth was raised by the Martin family. from Va. I don't know what happen after that till He goes to work on the Russell farm and later marries my Great- Grandmother Viola Russell. She was alot younger than him . 20 years They married against her parents wishes in 1892. They lived in Limestone Co. Ala. till they moved to Texas in the early 1900's. My grandfather Solon Chandler was born in Howland Texas close to Paris Texas July 20, 1908. He had three sisters. Maggie and Nettie Ann were born in Ala. and Henry Louis, Rose Etta, Royce Edgar , and himself were born in Texas. Roise died in his teens in Texas. They lived in Lamar Co.Paris,, Hillsbora, Texas Pettus, Texas in Bee Co. and San Patrica Co. in Aransas Pass. Royce Edgar named one of his sons after his father John Bethelhem Chandler. I'll go to the Library and see about the book. Thanks for the email back Bertha