This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shirley, Woods, AAshley, Norwood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/626 Message Board Post: It has been said:::: Alice Mae Woods born July 30, 1862(65) was actually adopted by the: 1) Sam Woods family or 2) the Cuff Ashley family. These in either Alachua or Lake or Putnam or St.John's Counties!!! As you can see, not much to go on. Alice Mae married Thomas Bryant Shirley(b. Mar.25,1856, Fla? or Ga.). They married ca. 1880,lived in Crescent City,Putnam Co., Fla., in Brooker,Bradford Co.,Fla. and in Coral Gables where they had homsteaded and established one of the first farms there. A sister to Thomas, Mary Shirley, married John Parrish in Bradford Co.. Thomas and wife Alice Mae had 5 children. The oldest Loker Mae Shirley married Pinckney Alexander Norwood, born Colleton Co., So. Carolina. They lived in Old Shirley Place on Crescent Lake and reared 8 children there. The third child was Alice Mae Norwood, the Mother of my husband George Brown. She passed last Jan. on her birthday at age 95. I really need info re: the older family. Have no way of knowing where or how to start...but I'm working on it!! If any of the names sound familiar to you, let's talk!! My regards, Doris Kirschke Brown a Texan in Florida kirschke@atlantic.net