Ruth - Yes, I'm Jerry Bernard Quinn. Not too fond of the middle name, but I'm stuck with it. Aunt Mildred shouldn't have given it to you. Did you go to the reunion this year? It was what? Two weeks ago? My mother and father weren't able to make it and the rest of us didn't make time for it either. I would have thought that Judy Herring would have contacted me, but she didn't. You know, when I found those graves, I was noticed that Penelope Ann's marker was big - she died in 1855 when times were probably good. The family was well-off and could well afford a suitable marker. Hargett's was a bit smaller - he died in 1875 after the war when times were tough; and Susannah - who lived until 1881 had a considerably smaller marker. I guess that the family fortune had been considerably reduced by then if indeed it even still existed. Hargett's will left Susannah almost everything (for as long as she remained a widow), but the 1880 Federal Census showed her keeping house for one of her grandsons - an R. H. Kornegay - and then she died the next year. Any feedback on that? I don't mean to harp on Susannah, but since she was an ancestress to so many of us, it may be of interest to the group. One of the Census records I looked at (was either 1850, 1860, 1870, or 1880) also said that she was illiterate. I was going through the National Archive records once time and I wrote down that the 1850 Census showed Hargett and Susannah with 11 slaves, one of which was a 50 year old female. Then in 1860, the Census showed they still had 11 slaves, one of which was a 60 year old female. Looking at the 1870 Census - after the slaves were freed - I found a listing for one Chloe Kornegay, 70 years old, black, living with her grandson Chester Kornegay. I wonder if maybe she was Susannah's cook or maybe the mammy to her children. Guess we'll never know. Do you have any information on Ahazurus Kornegay, the youngest son of Isaac Kornegay and Hester Hargett? What a strange case. Was he the original skeleton in the closet, or what? I'm glad to hear that you have a lot of info on the Goodsons. All I knew was that Alice Goodson's parents were George Goodson and Zilphia Jones and I didn't even have any dates on them. I'd be very interested in seeing what you have on the Goodsons. Tell you what, I've got everything that Aunt Mildred knows already in a GEDCOM database (I had a chance to interview Uncle Irv about a year before he died). Maybe we can come to an arrangement. I'd also like to see what you have on the pictures. Was I right? Was Susannah wearing a bonnet? Must have been one of the really early photos taken in Duplin County. Now that I think on it, wasn't that first collection of information made by a Dulan Powell? My Uncle Tony Mozingo tells me that something happened to him and that he wouldn't be able to answer any questions for me. I don't have anything on any Millers, but my father's mother was a Williams and her mother was a Smith from Hallsville. I've got some stuff on both of those families but am always looking to add more data to my collection. ******************************************* Jerry Quinn 12 El Paso Court Hampton, VA 23669 USA (757) 851-0027