Good Morning... Remember the WILSON posting that I did and there were two other DYESS connections there..and.. I promised to let you know about those DYESS connections... EMMA E. DYESS was the daughter of Edmond D. Dyesss ...which I have listed her on the DYESS connection in the first letter that I put out to the group..... Emma E. Dyess was a sister to the James (Jim) Dyess the Grandfather of the deceased.... Emma E. Dyess married Albert (AL) Wilson, son of Frank Wilson and Sarah Matilada Byrd (Bird) ... The deceased Donald Lee Wilson was the Grandson of Frank and Sarah Matilda.....and...the brother to Luther Wilson, the father of the deceased..... Now, Albert (AL) Wilson and EMMA E. DYESS who were married and...lived in Jackson County Ms and they moved to Rapides Parish, La...between 1865 and 1866. This couple had, but not necessariy in the order shown: 1. Albert (Allie) Wilson Jr. married Fannie Gray 2. Margaret Wilson, married James Donaldson 3. Herman Wilson, died young. 4. Edmond Wilson, never married 5. Jesse Wilson, married Bessie Strother 6. Bailey Wilson, never married 7. Thomas Wilson, married Jessie Strother 8. Jane(Janie) Wilson, married Nelson Green I really don't have any more desending information on the 8 children...If anyone has it...I would love to have it... The ancestors of Albert Wilson and Emma Dyess have been given in the Wilson and Dyess letters that I have already sent... Emma DYESS goes back to the brother...George W. Dyess Appreicate any information that anyone has on these people... Thanks!!! kaite...