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/Bd.2ADE/701.1.3.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Carolyn, thanks so much for the information on Nona! It "sounds right" to me. As for the Z, I have no idea what it stands for, but won't surprise me if we find it stands for Zylphia. I am expecting to receive some info from a family Bible from a relative, but haven't gotten it yet. Maybe that will help. Here is what I have on the Alexander P. and Amanda Daniel family - a lot of this is from family records. John A. b 8 Nov 1841, died 22 Oct 1931; married Emily Wilson. Mary E. 13 or 15 FEB 1843 died 13 APR 1934 William H. b 5 MAY 1844; died 22 APR 1863 Missouri A. 15 SEPT 1845; died 1911; married James Simonton Rufus Alexander b 27 MAY 1845, died 8 DEC 1858 Zelphia S. b 31 JULY 1849, died 8 SEP 1919 - never married Julia E. b 16 DEC 1850 died 24 JULY 1920 married a Lipham (John Simon, I believe) Sarah A. E. b 4 July 1852 died 6 SEPT 1909 married Harrison Lane (They are both buried at Salem, also). Rebecca Criswell b 18 APRIL 1854, died 26 JUNE 1922; married James Jefferson Hammond (both buried at Salem) Joseph E. b 27 Oct 1855 Lucy Eldridge b 14 MAY 1857 died 29 Nov 1945; married Samuel Murrell Garrett Martha O. Z. (Sometimes shown as Orazebba, Ora Zebba, etc.) b 31 MAR 1859, died 5 Nov 1935. As I posted earlier, she is buried at Salem next to Samuel, with the name "Mattie Simonton Justus" on the tomb. But the birth and death dates on the tomb match those I have for Martha. At LDS, the 1880 census transcription has Samiel Semelton, 28; Martha Semelton, 21; and a son Perry, age 1. They are in District 987 Heard Co. They are next door to James and Rebecca Hammond, and not far from Harrison and Sarah Lane, and James Simelton 34, Mousorie Simelton 35, with a son Richard, age 3. I believe all this to be essentially correct - if it is not, I hope someone will correct me! One puzzling thing is that Samuel and Martha are shown with a child named Perry . . . perhaps he died as a small child? Also - Carolyn was the child of Carl and Mittie Jane Simonton, but I'm not sure it was the Carl b 1885 died 1966. I don't believe he (Carolyn's father) was that old - I think there was more than one Carl. Another thing of interest - the 30's - 40's movie star Evelyn Keyes (played Sue Ellen in Gone With the Wind) was a grandaughter of Lucy Daniel and Samuel M. Garrett.