This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pAB.2ACI/5194.1.1 Message Board Post: hi Kathy thanks for writng i'm having with the same trouble with my Bryants & Mullins (they were from VA./KY.)my 3rd gt-grandparents John A. Mullins & Ava Bryant had a bunch of kids out of wedlock.And sometimes when the kids got in trouble they'd use the Bryant surname etc.Anyway i believe my Ava was the daughter of this Joseph Bryant as he's the only one who fits and i'd bet your David is also Josephs son can't prove none of this though it's all just speculation. Rick