This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Louallen Patterson Devine Carey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gBB.2ACI/3426.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm not sure I have this straight, because the pieces don't seem to fit. Charles Louallen died in 1956. Where? He was married to Emma Patterson, who you say is the dau of Armstead Patterson. Charles and Emma Patterson Louallen had a dau Annie, who married a man named Butler. Annie Louallen Butler is your Grandmother? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Greg Smith has a Charles and Emma Patterson Louallen online in his family tree: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3173165&id=I063723 His Emma Patterson was the GRANDdaughter of Armstead Patterson (not the dau). According to Greg, Emma's parents were William and Elizabeth (Devine) Patterson. He has that Emma was born 8 Mar 1845 in Mercer Co., KY., and that she married a Charles Louallen (no date given). HOWEVER : I also have an Emma Patterson, dau of William and Elizabeth Devine Patterson, granddaughter of Armstead Patterson, born 8 Mar 1845 (same birth date and parents as Greg has). http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mercer&id=I1355 My Emma, though, was married to a Malory Carey in 1864, Washington Co., KY. I have no record of a marriage to a Charles Louallen, but that doesn't mean one didn't take place. Are all 3 of these the same Emma Patterson? If so, then your death date for Charles Louallen doesn't make sense, as he'd have been 110 +/- years old when he died. And Emma didn't really die all that young ... she died in 1915 (at the age of 70). This has intrigued me. What else do you have (specific) on these people to help us sort them out?