This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holt,Wiley,Sawyer,Brannon,Murry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Eej.2ACIB/398.1654.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Sharon I don't know if I have spoke to you about this query or not. You said you had papers that stated John Wiley died in the army. I never came across that. his wife Elizabeth filed pension papers for a pension and stated he died in Fulton Ky. However she couldnt prove this. Its so hard to track him down. I have found a John Wiley in Ky and Ill as early as 1820 on the census but have no way of knowing if it is the correct John. Im going back to the court house this summer and see if I can find out anything about him , maybe a land transfer or something. I paid someone in The Tn,Ky are to do some research but nothing so far. I would also like to find a marriage lic for Allan Holt and Mary Ann Medcalf. I believe he was married to Marge Ann Brannon from 1850 till before 1876 when he married Elizabeth Harris. I still think maybe Mary ann Medcalf was Marge Brannon. This would explain the two Holt children in the Murry Household. My other great grandfather Jas Murry and Directon Brannon. Directon Brannon I believe to be the Bridgt Brannon who married James Murry in 1857. If Bridgt and Mary Annn were sisters it would be the reason she took care of the Holt children for a 20 year period. Or possibly directon Brannon and Mary Medcalf were half sisters or something. I would pay dearly for this information. If someone could give me cold hard facts they would be well rewarded :) please keep in touch if you come across anything new. Nancy