This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lancaster Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Rc.2ADI/687.1.1 Message Board Post: Randy, thanks for your reply. Your mention of West Point is interesting. When J. S. James wrote his "Brief History of the Sacred Harp" in 1904, he wrote that Sarah LANCASTER had lived and died in West Point, Ga. But by 1911, when he wrote notes about the composers in his book "Original Sacred Harp", he changed this, saying she was still alive and living in Texas. He wrote that "statements about her having died at West Point, Georgia, twenty-five or thirty years ago" were a mistake. But this time he is never clear about whether she did actually live at West Point. So my original inclination was that she lived at West Point, but am not sure, and have just found a family in Marion County (1860) that may fit better (having daughters with names that fit the initials of the other two, as well as a Sarah).