In a message dated 11/14/99 12:48:06 PM Central Standard Time, GATROUP-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << From: Kaye Lanning Minchew <kaye@lgc.edu> To: GATROUP-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.32.19991112173223.00721278@mentor.lgc.peachnet.edu> Subject: Re: [GATROUP] Will Abstracts Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There is an estates records book for Troup County which the Troup County Historical Society published. Unfortunately, it only goes up to 1850. Instead, We can check the microfilm of the will books if you send us their full names. K >> Kaye, You have been so helpful to me in the past, I cannot fully express my gratitude. You don't know the effect your help has had in spurring me to find relatives in other counties and this has facilitated the beginnings of a healing of a breach that has wounded our family since 1922 or so. Now I have another favor or question to ask of you. ( all of these people lived in Troup County at one time.. but didn't necessarily stay there all their lives) My great grandfather Charles W. SMITH (b ca 1862 d ca 1931) married 1890 Susan A. ( Sudie) BROOKS. (b ca 1872 d 1934) My great granduncle Young Hall SMITH ( I have no dates) married ( n.d.) Leila BROOKS. (no dates) Charles and Young Hall were the sons of Wiley Brooks SMITH ( 1825 to 1874) and Eliza Scott HALL (1837 to 1912) ( Wiley and Eliza were married in 1859) question 1) Did Chales and Young marry sisters ? (were Sudie and Leila sisters?) question 2) Was there another connection with the BROOKS family? In other words.. why was Wiley Smith given the middle name BROOKS??? I realize this may be beyond the scope of what you do, or information that you might have. I appreciate anything you or anyone on the list might be able to come up with. sincerely, Lisa Tucker Melvin LisaTM@aol.com