Well, I've hesitated about submitting this, because I guess I feel it's hopeless, but here goes again - and again. I cannot get past my great grandfather - JOSEPH ABNER JOHNSON - supposedly born around 1837 in either Alabama or Mississippi. There was always a story in my family about two brothers leaving Pontotoc Co., MS and a large family, and heading South for Neshoba Co. - one of them, I suppose, being my great grandfather. I don't know how true it is. The first and only record I have of Joseph Abner is the 1860 Neshoba Co. census where he appears with wife, Mary Undine BROWN, and one child - my grandfather, John R. Johnson, born in Neshoba Co. in 1859. It says that Joseph was a wagon maker. It lists Joseph's age as 23 and Mary's as 21, but I believe she was fudging on her age, as her tombstone reads "born in 1842", so in 1860, she would have only been 18. I believe they probably got married in about 1857-58. They had another son, James H. Johnson, in 1862. By 1863, my great grandfather had died, and I am now trying to find out if died in the Civil War. He was only about 26 when he died. Mary remarried in about 1865, I guess, to a Judge Samuel McNeil, a man much, much older than she. They had two or three more children, and then he died. Much later, Mary married a third time to a Pinckney Webb, but had no more children. Don't know where Joseph and Mary got married. The closest marriage record I've seen was a Joab Johnson and a Mary M. Brown who married in Pontotoc Co. in 1858. The middle initial in Mary's name could have really been a "U", but mistaken in the old-fashioned handwriting for an "M". Also, I guess the name, Joab, could have been short for Joseph Abner. What does anybody think? Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance. Sue Howard SueHoward@prodigy.net