This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Black, Bailey, McCracken Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Jc.2ADI/217.2 Message Board Post: Lynda, Your message listed Black as one of your surnames that you are researching. Are your Blacks from that area of Ga.? I am looking for a man that I believe is from the area of Hall and Forsyth Counties in GA. Joseph Albert Black born in 1848 in Ga died 1915 in Tx. Moved to Tx in 1880s. Death citificate says that he was a Jr. Named oldest child, a girl,Thomas born in Ga. in 1879. Joseph married Ada Francis Sikes nee Bailey a widow also born in Ga.