Amy, Found this in deed book in Trinity Co, ====== Direct Index of Record of Deeds, Trinity Co, TX, Vol 1: 1) Wm Earl to Aaron AINSWORTH A 531 2) R E Earl & wife to C.M. LESTER G 639 However, I failed to get a date for this, or details. However, William EARL was b 6 Aug 1811 Rapides Parish, LA d: 6 Jan 1873 Crockett, Houston Co, TX, and was the son of Mathew EARL & Nancy WHITE & Wm married his adopted niece, Amanda Snody WHITE ======= His son was Richard Emmett White- EARL b: 30 Oct 1855 Pennington, Trinity Co, TX d: 21 Jun 1945 in Orange, Orange Co, TX m. Nancy Jane NIXON b: 30 Sep 1852 AL-c d: 23 Apr 1921 ======== And Alice Elgie KENDRICK (1908 - 1954) married Richard Emmett's grandson, Richard Alton EARL (1908 Ellis Co, TX -1999 Harris Co, TX) son of Clarence Emmett EARL & Cora Elizabeth Robertson DENBO ======= which bring me back to AINSWORTH. Is there a family tie there I don't know about? TTYL, Jackie Ashley Pace of Pasadena, TX < http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/a/c/Jackie-A-PACE/index.html >