Thanks for the suggestion on Tarboro. Any clue is worth a try. We know so little about my husband's g grandparents, James and Mollie Agnes Lawrence. The death certificate of James Arthur, their son, states that James Arthur was b MS. Some family stories state he was born TN. James Arthur ended up in Texas sometime around the late 1880s. We have tax records on him in Travis Co around 1893. Marriage certificates, he married 3 times, in Hays and Travis Cos. We have no records of his parents or just where James Arthur came from before reaching Texas. Margie Lawrence Texas