Sherry, I'll try to show the connection if I can. please bear with me, and thanks for the kind words. Pg. 118 is the beginning of the family of Thomas Jefferson Autrey, the 13th son of Absalom and Elizabeth (Norris) Autrey. It ends with page128. I hope I don't confuse us even more. Thomas Jefferson AUTREY lst married Cynthia Elizabeth HEARD in what is believe to be 1865 due to the date of his Confederate Army release and the date of birth of his first child, Lou Ella. T.J. "Doc" and Cynthia had 9 children. Caldonia D. Autrey,their 5th child, married Henry Martin MICHAEL, son of James Wilber and Rachael Emmeline (Pyson) MICHAEL, IN 1889 IN Lincoln Parish. They had 10 children born in La. I don't have the information, but according to Rowland Dill of Kingwood, Texas, Cynthia Elizabeth Heard's sister married an IVY. The IVY family married into the STAPLES family. Rowland told me he was working on this connection and would be getting in touch with both of us soon, hopefully you will hear from him soon. If you would like more information for contacting him, please contact me privately. I will try again to contact him for us, this is an interesting connection and I'd like to have more information. I hope this has helped you. Jo Autrey ----- Original Message ----- From: <Gritzbaugh@aol.com> To: <LALINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 7:07 AM Subject: Re: [LALINCOL-L] Land patents > For those who have no read Jo Autreys book on the > Lincoln Parish allied families, you may be missing > some good documented data. Jo, I still do not > know how the Michael/Ivy/Staples fits in. Can you > tell me? > Thanks, > Sherry G. > > > ==== LALINCOL Mailing List ==== > Check out the Lincoln Parish Archives at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lincoln.htm >