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/Zc.2ADI/478.1 Message Board Post: Rather Remarkable Laurens county contains a family of nine brothers all living and in good health the youngest fifty years of age, six of them served through the late war four of them are good blacksmiths, none of them ever had a chill or fever until past twenty-nine years of age. The father of this quiver of boys was the late Stephen B. Hester. The Dublin Post April 30, 1879. Page 3 Column 2.