Hi Micheal D. Nelson, I've been reading the e-mails to you and I think what you are doing is very kind. I was wondering if you had ever come across a Laborn/Laban James born in Alabama about 1821. He married Martha F. (no surname) and they moved to Texas before 1853 as that was when Pleasant B. was born in Texas. They also had one more child named Eliza C. who was alos born in Texas. I found them on the 1860 census in Homer, Angelina County, Texas. I'm looking for any leads because I can find no grave sites either. Thanks for your help, Sally in WA