Hi Bill, Yes, what a fantastic coincidence! I have to say I have a million questions, some of which I'm sure you can answer. Please be more specific on your line from Walter. What's your full name and where do you live? Maybe we should switch to our personal e-mails. Would you be my Uncle Walter's grandson? the son of who? Of course, Walter had a different mother , Elnora Shaver (died early) than my mother did, Nannie Bradshaw. I have a little bit on that.You probably know that I'm a son of Rebecca Morris, a twin of Mary Morris Barnes. Mary married Homer Barnes and there are a lot of those still around Eldorado and in the Gary, Ind. area. John, the oldest, is about to bite the dust though. You say Thomas Delton? We and the Barneses don't agree on that middle name. My mother told me it was Delano. Do you have anything in writing that shows T.D.'s signature or a document with his middle name? I have tried but they're all "T.D." or Thomas D. Morris. I have a bit of info. on T.D.'s brothers and his father and uncles, but I've deduced a lot from military records from the Civil War. I need more there. I also lost track of T.D.'s grandfather, William Morris and his grandmother, Charlotte, after they moved to Eldorado in about 1839. William and Charlotte were born in 1803 and 1804 in Virginia and N.C. They had some of their children somewhere in Tenn. before moving to Eldorado. Do you have more on this? Sooner or later I am going to have to find out the rest, but I've had my hands full for the last nearly two years trying to learn the Heltsley/Morris families plus understand where we lived in eastern and western Ky. and Southern Illinois. Also that story of Nigger Hill would be the second and final, followup such outbreak, according to the way I heard it. If there's a way I could borrow those books, please do it. Or if there's somewhere I can buy them or otherwise get access. I had lost track of Walter's side of the family. Now that I'm looking at the records I have, I see you must be Vera's son. she married an Earl Johnson. Wasn't she the one who lived in Rockford, Ill.? Off the top of my head, it must have been Mona, widow of J.B. Lassater, who I talked to here in Tucson by telephone a bunch of years ago. She and her son lived here about the time I got here in 1967. Sadly, I wasn't too interested in genealogy or family at the time. She has died, I'm told, and I don't know what's happened to her son. Don't know for sure how Lassater is spelled. There are lots of variations. And then there was Glen Morris, who died April 12, 1975. Most of what I know on Walter's family I got from Pat Barnes Ashby, who is interested in this sort of thing in Eldorado, but she doesn't have a computer. Please answer in detail and it should improve our combined knowledge of that side of our family considerably. This is exciting! Cousin Ernie Heltsley