This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chandler, Womack, Shaw, King, Maynard, Davis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iUI.2ACIB/1.1352.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: SeeI don't know cause we never had any information on John B. before he married Viola Russell in Alabama. Have you ever heard of him marrying a Russell? All we know is that when they married they lived in Limestone Co. Ala. Had two daughters Nettie and Maggie? Anyone in the family with those names? They usually named kids after their families. Then they moved to Howland , Texas near Paris, Texas. There they had two more Rosa Etta and Solon (Solen). They had Royce Edgar in Hillsbora Texas in Hill Co. Any of your family ever move there. They came back a couple of times to Ala. but I don'tknow where they went. I would love to find his parents. I want my children to know where we came from. The Russells of Pulaski , Tenn. have given us alot of information about Viola but I don't have anything to go on for John. My Aunt was telling me a story about Something she was told but I don't know if it's true. It was that John went to Texas with his family. He had two children when his ! died when he came back to Ala. Went to work for the Russells. Viola and John fell in love. He was 33 year and she was 15. Parents where against but they got married. They married in 1893. Came to Texas around 1904? That's as much as I can tell you except to go in depth about the Children of John Bethel and Viola Chandler. My Grandfather was Solen Chandler. I would love to have your information if you don't mind giving it to me. I have been going on their sons names and the girls names. Also on the names my Grandpa Solen gave his sons. They have to be family names. John Henry, Solon, Jerry Davis, Jimmy Dwane, Robert , Edgar Leon. Solens brother Lewis gave his oldest son the Clerence P. Chandler. I don't know but I'm looking. One of Lewis's granddaughters Betty Allred is also trying to trace them down. She lived in La. They have a long list of kids and grandchildren in their family also. Thanks for the information. We know there is a William in father of John Bethel because! it lists him on Robert Cleveland Samuel Chandlers Social Security app lication he made along with a Edna Trout Shelton. Thanks will get back with you with more later. Address Box 1304, Goliad, Texas. Also John Bethel and Viola lived in the Pettus, Texas Bee Co. area in the 1930's. There was a Thos. Chandler who had a father named William on his death certificate. His mother was named Heldabrad. Couldn't find a connection. I figured they might have moved next to family. This Thos. was from Skidmore.