This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goodwin, Murray, Russell, Coon, Price, Reynolds, Urquhart, O'Connor, VanGuilder, Gartenfeld, Goldman, Scheslinger, Stein, Nachman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CCB.2ACE/186.3.2 Message Board Post: There is a ware family in/around Haynesville. There has also a woman that has worked on that line. I have Desdemonia Ware as secomd wife to my John Thomas Goodwin of Haynesville. No issue. Des Deemonia "Dezzie" Ware and was born on December 20 1865 and died on July 29, 1939. Desdemonia Ware was the daughter of Anthony House Ware and Mary H. Harper Anthony was born May 18, 1836 and died January 26, 1911 in Columbia AR. Mary H. Harper was the daughter of Samuel Harper and Mary Ainsworth Their children were Benjamin Franklin Ware, Eady Elizabeth Ware,Sophronia Ware, Mary Evelyn Ware( then Desdemonia ) next Parthilona Ware, Sarah Melinda,James Miles "Jim" Ware and Mittie Jane "Sweet" Ware. James Miles "Jim" Ware married Parolee Owen She had never been married when she became the second wife of John Thomas Goodwin. At the time of their marriage on September 10, 1905, she was 39 years old and he was 58 years old. John Thomas' youngest child, Robert, was 19 years old, so raising the children was not a factor in re-marriage for him. Grave beside J.T. Goodwin reads: Des Deemomonia Ware Goodwin, 20 December 1865 - 27 Apr 1939. Info from Lilly Mae G. Blanton.