In a message dated 8/10/99 1:41:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << notsure what you mean by Burned but all the slave sch are avaialbe in the Archives and the Bluebonnet lib here in Baton Rouge >> By burned, I mean, the courthouse was burned (along with about everything else) when federal troops came through. This is my problem. My 4GGrandfather, Thomas J. HOOPER was married to Mary Henrietta Wells Fulton. I can find all sorts of documentation for the time he spent in LA. On the 1850 census he says he was born in GA. There was a group of Hoopers in GA that moved to TN. I'm trying to find Thomas J.s parents. I believe that he was Churchwell Hoopers son that was named in his will and left his choice of two slaves, Lamb or Lewis. The reason for this assumption is Thomas J. named his only son Churchwell, not a common name. So in order to give some credence to my assumption, if I could find some documentation that named his slaves and there was a Lamb or a Lewis then there would be a link, weak but a link none the less. The slave schedules I've looked at only list the numbers not the names. Is there a way I might find the names? If anyone else has a suggestion, I'm all ears. Thanks, Charlotte Turner Merrifield