I subscribed to the Glanton digest some time ago, now, and the ONLY thing I have seen in my mail box was Jim Young's invitation to look at some Civil War records. Is there anybody on this list but Jim and me? If you are out there and you are interested in the Glanton family tree - Let's PLEASE get some dialogue going! I may have the info you need - you may have the info I need. I am gathering info on ALL Glantons, not just my own family. Got a question? Ask it. I may be able to help. The question itself may help us both. I am concentrating my search, at present, on trying to distinguish which of two or three William Glantons I am descended from in the mid 1800s. The number one candidate was the son of Jonathan Glanton JR and Elizabeth Weaver, grandson of Jonathan Glanton SR and Susanna Anderson. He is seen in one place as William 'Churl' Glanton. However, most other references list him as William T. Glanton. He was the brother of Dempsey Rogers Glanton and Jonathan William Glanton. Dempsey Rogers Glanton married Ann Bolger and blazed a pretty easily trackable trail from Edgefied County, SC to Upson County, GA to Meriwether County,GA to Marion County, GA to middle Alabama on to Freestone and Erath Counties in Texas. Brother Jonathan William Glanton went from Edgefield County, SC to Houston County, GA, where he married a Martha King in 1844. He died there, four years later, in 1848. If you are a Glanton in the Elberton area of Georgia, there is a good chance that you are descended from Jonathan William Glanton. The number two candidate for the William I am looking for was the son of Charles William Glanton SR and an unknown wife. Charles William Glanton SR was the oldest son of John Thomas Glanton JR and Priscilla Holmes. He had four children, all boys, and the one I am looking for was Charles William Glanton JR. The other three brothers were Benjamin, Julian and John Joel. When George William Glanton SR died in 1826, his four boys were between the ages of 4 and 12. Their mother packed them up and left the Edgefield SC area between 1826 and 1830 with wagon train of about 200, headed west to Louisiana. I have found evidence of descendents of these brothers in several different Louisiana Parishes, including Winfield, Jackson and Richland. The only fate I know, so far, of any one of these four brothers was John Joel Glanton. Anyone out there who has looked into the Glantons for any length of time has either run into John Joel - or he is just around the corner. John was an infamous desperado in south Texas and the west during the mid to late 1840's. He was a Texas Ranger who defected, killed at least one Ranger, worked for the Mexican Government during or just after the Mexican / American War as an apache scalp hunter and was killed by indians, himself, on his way to California to join the Gold Rush in late 1849 or early 1850. His exploits were part of a three part article in LIFE magazine in late July and early August of 1956. The last I know of Charles William Glanton JR was that his family went from Edgefield, SC to Louisiana, sometime between 1826 and 1830. The last rumour I have heard of his fate associated him with the Gordon County and Floyd County areas of Georgia. The last I know of William 'Churl' or William T. Glanton was the he was one the children of Jonathan Glanton JR and Elizabeth Weaver and as such he was mentioned in Jonathan JR's will and in the will of Elizabeth Weaver's mother. (In the grandmother's will he is William 'Churl'. In his father's will, he is William T.) Almost all of the ten children of Jonathan Glanton JR wound up in Upson County, GA or close to Upson County, between 1830 and 1840. My William Glanton married Mary J. Hollingsworth in Talbot County, GA in 1842. Talbot County is next to Upson County. In 1850 they were living in Upson County. In 1860, William is gone from any official records I have found, so far, but the family is still in Upson County. This makes me lean toward the William Glanton of Jonathan Glanton JR's family. However, by 1867, the family had moved from Upson County to Gordon County and at least one branch of that family went to Alabama, Louisiana and then on into Texas, which makes me lean toward the family of Charles William Glanton SR.