I am posting this again in the hopes of finding more info: I am trying to locate info on my g-g-grandmother Christiana Jones, b. about 1832 in possibly Alabama. All I have to go on is a marriage license from Nov. 1863 (Pocahontas, Randolph Co., AR) in which 31 year old Christiana Jones married William Samuel Fredrick. She died sometime before 1872, when William Samuel Fredrick married for the 3rd time. Christiana had 1 daughter Mary Ellen Fredrick. In census records Mary Ellen always has her mother's birthplace listed as Alabama. There were two Jones men who lived in the same area as William Samuel Fredrick in 1861, and the 3 men all joined Captain Ballard's 30 Day Volunteers Infantry on Nov. 17, 1861 together. The two Jones men were George M. Jones (Corporal) and Joseph B. Jones (Sergeant). They appear to have been from Bladen, North Carolina. I am wondering whether Christiana Jones was related to the two Jones men. 33 years of age was quite old for a first marriage; perhaps she was a widow of one of those men or a relative? Any help would be greatly appreciated, since Christiana is one of the big unknowns in my research. She lived such a short time after her marriage, and I have no idea where she was living at the time of her death. Merrie