This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3c.2ADE/958.1 Message Board Post: I found your messages on line while helping an elderly friend hunt for her family. Her grandfather was WILEY Lee Russell, who was born in GA. There are NO Wiley Russells listed in 1880 or 1890 censuses in GA who are white. My census search led me to WYLY W. Russell b. 1825 and his wife Rachel, and 4 children, living in Decatur County, GA, including an 7/8-year-old son the census taker listed as W. W. (most likely that is her grandfather, but we need more information). My friend's name is Doris Russell Stubblefield, and she knows nothing about her grandfather, not even his brothers and sisters' names, but I have found out a little bit. He was a WWI veteran, was born in GA on 10 July 1876, once lived in Jefferson County, MS, and died in Covington County before SS numbers existed (and was not in the 1920 census). Doris says her grandmother, his wife, was Carrie King who had a brother Dr. King who practiced at Forest, MS. WYLY Russell the elder (or another Wyly Russell,! but so far I haven't found but the one) showed up in 1891 in Davidson County, TN and voted in District 12 there (is this your line?). I haven't yet checked census records to get any additional info, or checked Davidson County library. Doris also says that her grandfather said his mother was a Cherokee Indian (Rachel? listed above), and that he said they married, she thinks, in the northern part of GA. I just started this hunt this morning, and so am going at it very naively, hoping to find a connection without having to do major digging (sometimes that works!). If you have ever run into these names in any connection with your family research, please let me know. Thanks, Mary Collins Landin Utica, Hinds County, MS