[email protected] wrote: Ben stayed in Pensacola because he liked it, also his wife Samantha Harrell Kersey had family here. Ben collected herbs for Harrells Drug Store. His father had taught him how to identify medicinal herbs. > ****Could Samantha Harrell be HARVELL. I have relatives by that name married > into my BOYETTs. > > > Ben and a neighbor named Charles Rushing started a cemetery over there. It > was called " Rushing Cemetery". My guess is that Charles Rushing put up most > of the land or all of it, for it to be named Rushing Cemetery. ****I have a J. RUSHING that signed some widow pensions records saying that he served with Charles BOYETT in the 53rd Al. Partisan Rangers aka Hammonds Cavalary. -- Joseph M. Garcia [email protected] Douglas Flat, California http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/a/r/Joseph-M-Garcia/index.html