This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RAWLS, MANGHAM, WILLINGHAM Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/1034.3.1 Message Board Post: Hi TCoker: Your reply was very, very interesting. It does look like the same family or group of families. I haven't done much on Willinghams, but I have hit a brick wall with my 2g grandfather, Thomas Rawls and decided to branch out, find connected families and maybe, just maybe get an answer on Thomas' parents, siblings etc. Do you have any approximate dates for Joyce and Sarah Willingham? It seems to me Martha Ann, my g grandmother, would have to be the daughter of one of the brothers, if there was one old enough to have a child born in 1821. I never lived near my grandparents, but my cousins who did have told me Langford was a familiar name to them. There was a younger Langford who used to drop by my grandfather's farm who called him 'Uncle'. I thought that might mean that one of his older sisters (most likely S.D. on the census) had married a Langford. Perhaps, there is also a connection farther back. I have never heard of the Langford Letter, but it sounds very interesting. I met on the Internet a 'cousin' who is married to a man descended from Mary Ann Rawls and Joseph Stuart. I eMailed her, pointing out your 2 messages (the Fallen one is the 2nd) My eMail address for genealogy is Jarnold4gen @aol.com. Our original address (Billjanarn) gets so full of spam I am afraid of losing a genealogy reply in the mess. I will ask my cousins about the Willingham history, Indians etc. Sometimes these things jog their memories. I would love to know more and will share what I have on Martha's descendants with family. Thank you. Jan Arnold