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/XBB.2ACE/1412.2.2 Message Board Post: Hi Jim, Many of my lines co-mingle with yours (although I convinced that everyone in Russell County is related through the Days, Bailys or McElroys) But I have hit some dead-ins that you might be able to help with. 1) My grandmother was Effie Hill, her father Joseph Hill and her grandfather Allison W Hill. He might have been a Holt who changed his name in th 1850s due to the con games that an Ambrose Holt pulled on Russell County residences in the 1820s. 2) I am a cousin of Elmer Hill - Allison Hill was his grandfather (as well as Nanny Womacks) but I don't know who his parents were 3) My grandfather, Henry Clay Eades, was abandoned by his father Sheridan (also know as Sherman and Sherrod) Eads. His father was William Eads and his grandfather was Asa Eads. I know very little about Sheridan Eads and very little on his mother and grandmother 4) I can trace myself back to Francis McElroy Sr of Adair County but I have no information about the McElroys beyond that point. If I can help you at all, please let me know.