In a message dated 1/21/99 10:27:35 AM Central Standard Time, NEKAI1@aol.com writes: > Interesting that this Dubose went to exactly where my GGGrandfather Ephraim > Howell (m) Mary Matilda Dubose had land in 1840s -1860. I visited Blue > Springs > Ala in 1993 and it is beautiful. The state of Alabama has taken it over and > it > is now a park..The springs come out of the ground and shoot into the air. I > met descendants of the Stricklands that traveled there in the 1840s also. > They > work at the park. Bettye, The first white owners of the Blue Springs State Park location were Haglers. I have a book on the Haglers but my brother has it right now. Nancy Catherine Hagler and Thomas Calhoun Lavender are my great grandparents; I think you have my Lavender info. When Tom Lavender's father died, all the Lavenders except Tom went to Clarke and Choctaw Co. where relatives were. There are no Lavenders shown in Clarke and Choctaw counties at the time so I think the relatives were Duboses. Lanny Cotton