This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xAB.2ACI/1928.1.1 Message Board Post: I had understood that Isaac finally made it to Texas, but only after pausing in southwestern Arkansas for almost ten years while on his way to Texas from Missouri. I grew up in this area of AR and have heard the tales of the Bests, Calloways, Mousers, Huckleberrys, Holders, Boones, etc. there. Do you know the relationship between the Bests and the Austins? Did they know each other only from Potosi, Missouri only, or did they come from earlier parts together in KY or VA?? If so, where in KY & VA? Also, do you know of Sarah Jane BEST, who was born about 1780 in Bedford County VA and married Elisha Hall in VA in 1800-01? They had a daughter Drucilla Hall that married Wm Bird Greer, Sr. They are all in my direct lineage. Is Sarah Jane Best part of the Isaac Best family (or tied somehow)? Drucilla & William Greer's daughter married a Barham and they moved in 1849 from KY/TN to the same community in southwest AR as Isaac Best, and the two families continued to intermarry there. It just seems they must all be connected. This same Barham line was earlier in VA, NC, TN, Calloway Co KY & Logan Co KY. I have a great deal on the Best, Mouser, Holder, Huckleberry, etc. folks in early AR. I'll be glad to exchange info with you if you have more you can share on the early Bests, etc.