Steven Wayne Strickland (me) 1961- Harold Wayne Strickland 1938- wed Jacqueline Gale Pollard Paul Ebenezer Strickland (1911-1950) wed Thelma Louise Crow Jodie March Drennan (1875-1940) wed Wm. Mounteville Strickland Parthenia A. Seay (1837-1906) wed John Calhoun Drennan Sarah Oliver Elam (c.1806 VA - 187_ TX) wed Ransom Seay (1796 SC- 1862 GA). Sarah Elam and Ransom Seay were the parents of my gr-gr-grandmother Parthenia Drennan. Census consistently indicates Sarah was born in VA. I believe the couple probably married in Spartanburg Co., SC, as Ransom Seay and family were already firmly entrenched there by the mid-1820's when Ransom and Sarah would have married, and the first of their children were born there. In the 1830's they moved to Dekalb Co., GA. Can be found in census: 1840 Dekalb Co., GA; 1850 Chattooga County, GA; 1860-70 Whitfield Co., GA. Sarah is alleged to have moved westward with one of her children in the 1870's--probably with Alexander Marion Seay or Martha Elizabeth Seay Kite Smith and families--and died there, no grave has yet been found. Sarah is thought to have been the sister of Willis M. Elam, who shows up in the Dekalb and Chattooga County censuses with the Seay family. Further, her mother's maiden name is supposed to have been Vaughn. Annette Wetzel has kindly shared one Elam-Vaughn marriage record, but the date of said record is apparently too late to represent the marriage of Sarah's parents. Help! Thanks! Steve Strickland