This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chesnutt and Chestnut Families of Thomas County Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/564.603.2.1 Message Board Post: Dear Charles, This is the most exciting information I have ever received while trying in vain for years to find out some shreds of information on the Chesnutt line. I had all but given up hop of ever getting any concrete responses from anyone. You must refresh my memory. Where is Thomas County? Is it TN? I have only been able to trace back to about 1848, when William Henry purchased land in Tuscaloosa County. The family did not keep very good records. This is actually my husbands family line. His father died two years ago and no other brothers left. I been yearning for any info no matter how small. I will be delighted to share with you everything I have. Do you know if Elizabeth is Elizabeth H. The 1860 census shows an Elvira H (7 yrs old) I have a copy of W.H.'s Last Will and testament of 1861, left a parcel of land to his beloved step-daughter, Amanda Holloway as long as she remained single and also gave to his beloved son Albert A. Chesnutt and two daughters Elizabeth H. and Lucy P. Chesnutte described parcels of land. In 1883 (after he died) there are E.H. Chesnutt relinquished to her brother her land. Do you know what year she married Francis Boothe? This is new information for me. I knew nothing much about his children except for Albert. This legal document was witnessed by EH. Chesnutt, G.W. Grisit and a Lucy P. Grisit (her sister Lucy I assumed married this G.W. Grisit, but I have never been able to find any thing on either one of the after this. I only always assumed that WH's wife Mary was widowed and we thought it was TN but not completely sure. In the Tuskaloosa Times Gazette 1881-1886, the obit for Mary reads as follows: May 5, 1886, Wed, Died at her home in Hughes Bottom on the 2nd inst., Mrs. Melvina Chesnutt of heart disease. Any way, I am babbling. I will be glad to scan or photocopy and mail you all the bits of info I have on William Henry. I am so excited to find out more if possible. Look forward to hearing from you. This email is at my work, which is fine to send to. I work M-F so that's why I use it.