Thanks Helene, I have researced this information. I located this same article on the Tallapoosa list. I contacted the list owner and he was just publishing articles from books, no relation. I located the book at the library in Lubbock, Tx., and copied the article. Also, I researched in SLC, UT the 1880 Texas Census, Freestone Co., E.D. 52, pg 488, line 48 and found this info: Hancock, Wm. A.J., 30 yrs. old, male, white, faming, born: Ala. Wife: Hancock, Martha E., 35 yrs. old, female, white, keeping house, born: GA., her father born N.C. Children: Age: born: Father born: Mother born: Nancy 9 TX. Ala. Ga. Early 6 TX. S.C. Ga. Sarah 11 TX. S.C. Ga. Emmer 3 TX. S.C. Ga. Hiram 3/12 TX. S.C. Ga. Wm. A. J. Hancock's Parents are Hiram Hancock & Nancy Waters. Hiram & Nancy's children: 1.Elizabeth Jane Hancock, b. 12-6-1841. She m. James Lumpkin. 2.Sarah Ann Fereby Hancock, b. 4-14-1843. She m. Samuel Knox. 3.Mary Catherine Hancock, born 5-26-1845, d. 7-10-1851. 4.Josiah George Washington Hancock, b. 8-1-1847, d. 6-7-1890. 5.Wm. Andrew Jackson Hancock, b. 9-15-1849 in Tallapoosa Co., Ala. He m. Martha Emily Tucker. (This is my lineage, great grandparents) Wm. A.J. Hancock and Martha Tucker's children: 1. Nancy Rebbecca Hancock b. 6-14-1870 in TX. She m. S. L. Pierce. 2. Early Joshua Hancock b. 7-17-1873 in TX. He m. Jennie Scott. 3. Sarah (Sallie) Thomas Hancock, b. 11-1-1875, d. 3-31-1911 in childbirth with Odell Fulton, Terry Co., TX. age the age of 36. (This is my grandmother) She m. Wm. Armstrong Fulton. 4. Emma T. Cora Hancock, b. 1-14-1878 in TX. She m. H. C. Calloway. 5. Hiram Jackson Hancock, b. 2-22-1880 in TX., d. Abt. 1905 at the age of 25. He was unmarried. 6. Georgia Lee Hancock, b. 9-4-1882. she m. T. B. Calloway. I can't seem to locate Hiram Hancock's parents, any help would be appreciated. Tap Roots Society shows Hiram Hancock m. Babcy Waters 12-1-1840 by John Reeves, min., Henry Hancock, L.S. Pat (Fulton) Gipson