In your email this morning you wrote: >>>>>>1-I have Neomi instead of Naomi because that is what is on her tombstone. 2-William Bright Gillespie. I have died May 19, 1889 from his tombstone. I have his wife as Kate Kuykendall from the History of Johnson Co., but this book has many mistakes. I also have a Kuykendall married to James Hiram. 3-I have Francis Marion's date of birth as April 21 not May from his tombstone. I obviously show he died in Johnson Co., IL, not TX. From other correspondence, I believe you said he went to TN, but came back to IL.<<<<<<<< Samuel and Francis Marion (if Samuel is indeed my ggrandfather) may have come to Texas together sometime between 1845 when Samuel was born and 1882 when my granfather Lantie is documented to have been born in Illinois. Our oral family history states that Samuel came to Texas from Tennessee while another brother went to Illinois. After a while the brother got very sick and they called upon Samuel to go to Illinois to take care of him. Perhaps Francis traveled with Samuel and he became very ill in Texas and Sam took him up to Illinois to be with the rest of the family. Texas was still a fairly remote wilderness up until the late 1800s and no place for a person with "consumption" or some such disease that was common in those days. This would explain why some family versions have Francis Marion going to Texas and others going to Illinois. It could very well be that he did go to Texas but then traveled on to Illinois where he died at Creal Springs. I know this is a lot of maybes, perhaps and ifs and is very poor geneology research but it does point out how many interesting mysteries are part of the puzzle. Just my two cents worth. Rick Gillespie