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/4AB.2ACE/5033.1 Message Board Post: I can help you a lot. My great great grandmother was Rhoda Ann Earle, was a half sister to Dr. Ben Earle. I have the history of the Earle family in book form that goes all the way back to The Earles of England, which includes the Earles of Virginia and Kentucky. Dr. Benjamin Prince Earle born April 02, 1846 in Robertson Co., Tennessee, and died April 30, 1918 in Charleston, Hopkins Co., Ky. He married Mary Ann Roberts on April 22, 1875. She was born November 27, 1857 and died March 25, 1918.They had nine children, ILa who married W. T. Fowler, Lula who married A.C. King, Ezias Robert who married Elize Wright, Georgia Isabella, Irby Benjamin who married Frances McKenna, Dora, Thomas Evans who married Elinor Southgate, Dudley Herndon who married Addie Morgan and Amma Nell. He was the son of Ezias W. Earle, born February 06, 1800 in Greenville, S.C. He was a minister. He married four times. 1) Sallie H. Clark 2) Rebecca W. Clark 3) Isabella Haydon, mother of Dr. Ben 4) Elizabeth Montgomery I have much more information with all the birth and most death dates, marriages and some detail. I have a huge file in my data base on the Earle family, but I have not posted all of the information that I have. I would be please to share with you.