Thanks to a discussion with Lackey Stephens... with whom I ***cannot*** communicate directly by e-mail for some reason, as all mail I send to accounts on dbtech.net are bounced right back to me... and about three well-spent hours studying grave stones at Butler Cemetery between Calvary and Whigham last Sunday morning, I have for the very first time been able to identify my Haire ancestors in census records. The key lay in finding out from a grave stone in Butler Cemetery, that my great grandfather's sister's name was not simply "Minnie" as I had it, but rather Druscilla Jane Minnie Haire. Drucilla, even spelled wildly phonetically is a highly recognizable name. She was born in 1868, and in the 1870 Florida census she and her father and mother show up together in Quincy (Gadsden County), Florida... the same place that John Haire, 29th Battalion, Georgia Cavalry served at during at least part of the last two years of the Civil War (fancy that), so I think that I am a bit closer to documenting that John Haire of the 29th Battalion, Georgia Cavalry is one and the same as my great great grandfather John Haire. In addition, I may have found a minor contribution to Lackey Stephens' search for the Haire/Elkins/South Carolina connection: Try searching the Confederate service and pension records of S.F. Haire, Co. A, 2d South Carolina Artillery. He witnessed for J. B. Elkins, Dodge County, Georgia on J. B. Elkins' Georgia Confederate pension application. There is also a later Confederate widow's pension application by Mrs. J. B. Elkins, based on J. B. Elkins' service in Co. A, 2d SC Artillery. There it all is: Haire, Elkins, and South Carolina. Just go to the Dodge County, Georgia, records and also find out which county or counties in South Carolina the 2d South Carolina Artillery, Company A, was raised. I think that will shed quite a bit of light on the entire situation. In my experience, witnesses on Confederate pension applications tend to be close relatives with different last names. <G> RW