Sherry, the neat thing about finding the "missing link" is that it ustally leads to a real breakthrough. I have a Matthew Lee Crump born August 30, 1854 in Tippah county MS who married Sarah Ezelia Sanders on March 11, 1875. I show this Matthew died Nov 24, 1929 in Whitesboro Texas. This Matthew and Sarah Ezelia Sanders had nine children, and the fifth was Oliver born August 1884 in Tippah Co, MS. Got to be the same family, so I need to get this info to you. It was furnished to me by Fred Ebenezer Crump, Sr. of SC. Matthew was son of James D. Crump of Franklin Co, GA; James was son of John D. Crump of Pittsylvania Co, VA; and John was son of Robert Crump b abt 1745 in VA. We do not yet know the parents of Robert. This is NOT my line, but I do have considerable information. With these new names you can check GenForum and other sources to get details. Robert Crump is the one who married Mary Parr of VA. The database on Robert's family contains almost 3,000 names, but nothing on "Oliver" other than his date and place of birth. It does appear that Matthew moved to Texas between March 1891 and Sept 1892 since he had a child in each place on those approximate dates. Let me know if you need anything from me. Good Luck! Ed At 08:18 PM 05/16/2000 -0700, George Davis wrote: > I am so excited. I found out who the my Grandparents were >yesterday. I ordered the death certficates and I want to share the >information I found on them. >Otis Oliver Crump was born on Aug. 12. 1884 in Hickory Flat, Ms. He >died on March 22, 1950 in Kingsland, Ar. His parents were Matthew Crump >and Ezelia Sanders. This information was given by my Grandmother. She >was his 2nd wife. I don't know who his 1st wife was. >I do know that he had a son Otis Oliver Crump Jr., and two daughters Ola >and Mattie by his first wife. > My Grandmother Mildred S. Sterns was born in Selma, Tenn. (I think >this should be Ms.) on March 9, 1894 and died at Monticello, Ar. on June >3, 1956. Her father was Charles Sterns. Her mother was unknown. The >information was given by my Aunt's husband. > I would love to talk to any one that knows anything about them. >Sherry Davis > > >==== CRUMP Mailing List ==== >CRUMP Archive Search: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > >