That is very sad. I can also see a distinct possibility in the naming pattern. I have two sets of great grandparents that lived in Heard County. One was Reuben Ashley Sr. (b. 1819) and Amanda Minerva Dunlap Ashley. The other one was Abraham Thompson and Martha Elizabeth "Patsy" Adams Thompson. Both of these had large families, but Reuben Sr. had at least two sons and Abraham had at least two daughters. Reuben Jr. married one of Abraham's daughters(Martha), and his brother William married the other daughter.(Sarah).....a case of brothers marrying sisters. Both Sarah & Martha had a brother named Joseph Lewis Thompson who married Mary Cansis Hammond (actually her birth name was Eugenia but the family changed it when she was 10 years old). Uncle Joe & Aunt Mary's daughter, Ollie Bell Thompson, was the one who married Robert Jefferson Daniel. One of the things I find the saddest in my genealogical pursuits is that people often just does not take the lines far enough to make the link they need to find so badly. I've had several researchers to tell me that they don't go past first cousins. And, many times in sharing family history with other cousins, they are not interested in any of the "knowns". All they want to know is who was the father of Abraham or Reuben Sr. Over 3,000 names of known descendants in my database and it seems ironic to me to fixate on one person only. I'd like to know that answer, too, but I also love knowing others in the family, and sharing old photos and family reunions.........perhaps I'm just getting old and far more sentimental about these things. Thank you for sharing that information with me. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack and Dorothy <dorothy917@bellsouth.net> To: <GAHEARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [GAHEARD] Alexander P. Daniel - Amanda C. McComb / McCombs - Heard County > It's a sad story . . . Rufus (middle name believed to be Alexander) Daniel > was "killed in a gin accident when 11 years of age. He got his head hung in > a horse-drawn lever. He is buried at Salem Methodist Church" (quoted from > the DLB notes). > > Your grandfather might have named your father in his memory.