HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld BB, I've struck out trying to find anything beyond what you already found. If he was a native of MS, I suspect his parents married after the 1930 census. Nel