> > Your information which you sent to karen of great interest to me. Your folks and mine must have interacted as friends in some cases family as I know that one Ricketson married into the Sears family of whihc I descend. You just have named all the locations that keep coming up in my travels has a genealogist. I wish that we could truly "see" the day to day interactions, the interwovenness of the fabric of the community as work. The Sears generally were tobacco farmers as I understand it. My Andersons arrived about 1870 in Clinch/Coffee in the area that was to become Atkinson Co. As a wheelwright I am sure that William was an important "axel", if you will, to many the folks as they got their wagons and other farm equipment made or repaired. How I would like to be a fly on the wall for one day in this community. His two of his three daughters--Ethalinder, Salette married in the families of McClellan and Meadows. His sons, Chris and Joseph married into the Burkhalter and Gillis families. But Emily, the oldest, my second great grandmother...I really have found no supporting information of who she married. Huxford says Taylor Andrews. but I have been unable to find such evidence of such a person. And when she married the second time, she is listed in the marriage records in Coffee County as Emily Anders. Emily Mar 5, 1850 Tattnall Co. d. Mar 1898 bur. Atkinson Co. at Sweetwater Church . I know so little about her that hyphen in between her b and d dates say only 2 sons and second marriage. Diana