In a message dated 12/10/99 9:48:07 AM Mountain Standard Time, GABURKE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > My great grandfather was Robert Allen Chandler in Burke County. Wonder if > he was named for a good friend of his fathers? Or there may have been a family connection of some sort. This may be confusing, but here goes: There was a James CHANDLER who m. Louise Joice MOBLEY (b. 1829). Louise was daughter of Benjamin MOBLEY and Elizabeth ELLISTON (b. 1786). Elizabeth was daughter of Robert ELLISTON and Sarah HARGRAVE, and was sister to Thomas T. ELLISON who married Lucretia ALLEN, the daughter of James ALLEN and Frances SIMMONS. James CHANDLER handled the estates of Robert and Sarah ELLISTON in the 1850s in Burke County. Anyway, perhaps your CHANDLER is related to this group who had family ties to the ALLENS. Good luck! Nancy