Posted on: Claiborne Parish La Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/La/Claiborne/10159 Surname: Simons, McClendon, Reese, Roach, Busby, Butler, Edwards, Wilson, Holt, McCarty, Colvin, Driskill, Oxford ------------------------- I am having a bit of a problem locating some family. I am looking for Claus (also found as Claud and John) Steffens (also found as Staffen)and family. There is no listing on the census - granted, it could be listed under Stephens or some other name. He was born in Bremen, Germany in 1837. In 1857 he came to the United States. Initially he was in SC and he became naturalized. Then came the Civil War and he enlisted in the Confederate Army and fought during the entire war. His money was lost with the defeat of the Confederacy as it was in a SC bank. He married Frances Jane (aka FANNY) Reece McClendon, the widow of Samuel Lee McClendon, who was in Georgia at the time. He accumulated another bank account and having heard of the fertile land in Texas, he, his wife and stepdaughter Georgianna McClendon, started to Texas. They found that the train ran only to Monroe, Louisiana. It was the dead of winter and the roads were bad, but they got passage to ARCADIA and decided to buy a farm there. They bought a farm about 12 miles from ARCADIA in the AYCOCK community. He is buried in the Simons' plot in Tulip Cemetery, Athens, LA. His grave is marked and kept by his adopted SIMONS family. Claus DOB is May 10, 1837 Fanny DOB is November 24, 1845 His adopted daughter was born July 12, 1862 and named Georgeanna McClendon. She might still have had the surname McClendon or possibly Reese. His wife's name was Frances Jane, aka Fanny. I think it more likely that they lived in Claiborne parish, as Georgeanna married David Richard Simons who lived in the Arizona Community of Claiborne Parish. If anyone can help me locate them on a census or any other information that would be wonderful. He died in 1919 and she died in 1920. I am trying to find them when Georgeanne was still with them, she married David Simons in 1882. Karen