This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DAw.2ACIB/1763 Message Board Post: Hi, glad to hear from you. I'm not posive if there's a connection or not. I've asked my mother but she's not sure either. I'll check with a couple of aunts and what little I have in one of our books. I would not discount it though. Most of my mother's family lives around the Ft. Smith area. I know that she was born in Alma and there's the Dean and Bolton Cementeries that have family in it. All that area around Alma, Van Buren, and Mountainberg is where the Dean's and Lawrence's lived from what I understand. Anyway, I'll check and see what I can find out. Anita