In a message dated 9/18/1999 6:04:47 AM EST, Deannamail@aol.com writes: > She could have been a sister or a sister-in-law. Do you know any of Lucy's > brothers' names? In 1855, a Mrs. Mary Christian married a Thomas Staples > in Elbert County, but I can't find anything about that particular Thomas > Staples in the superduperArdieBrown Staples file. She had a brother named James Thomas Posey CHRISTIAN b. 1815 and a brother named John Humphrey CHRISTIAN b. 1830. Those are the only two that I know of for sure. She did have other brothers, and at least a couple of them were old enough to marry and have a family by 1839. I just don't know their names yet. In 1850, John was living in Newton Co. GA in the household of Presley CHRISTIAN b. 1817, so he could have been a brother. But he was still in Newton Co. in 1860. And he could have been a nephew rather than a brother. > There are umpteen Mary Christian marriages in the Elbert County book, but > only two references to Marys marrying men named Christian, and neither > seems to be in the right time bracket. Yep. Frustrating, isn't it? :-) Thanks for taking the time to help. Vickie Elam White