Cheryll, I would be interested in any information regarding your maternal gg-gm, Delilah JOINER Lee. She was the wife of Bennett LEE, b. 1820, d. bef 1870, Mobile, AL. Bennett LEE was the son of Lovet LEE & Matilda ???. Following the info you E-Mailed to GALAUREN-L, I have included your 1999 E-Mail that provided earlier info for me on Delilah & Bennett. Has there been new info on this family? > I live in Alabama, but I visited Laurens Co. GA in 2003 looking for > information about my paternal g-gf Ivy MORRIS, who was on the 1840 Laurens Co. > Census--near your Bennett JOINER.  I learned that Ivy Morris lived in/near Dexter, > a few miles from Dublin, so I went to the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery > near Dexter.  > > I saw some Joiners buried there. I don't remember their names, but they were > probably related to Bennett Joiner.  I was curious about them, because I > have a Bennett Joiner, brother of my maternal gg-gm, Delilah JOINER Lee.  My > Joiner family goes back to Nash Co. NC and settled in the areas of Butler and > Conecuh Co. Ala. before 1840. Coincidentally, my g-gf Ivy Morris died in Butler > Co. Ala. in 1887.  I never have determined if the Laurens Co. Bennett JOINER > has any connection to the Butler/Conecuh Co. Alabama JOINERs. > ----------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail dated 25 Jun 1999 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [LEE-L] LEEs NC> AL(c.1830's--Butler/Conecuh Co.) I need help on my g-gm, Elizabeth LEE Black, and her family. This is what I know about Elizabeth LEE's family. Her father Bennett Lee was in Butler County, AL by 1837, maybe before. He is on Butler County's 1850 census and Conecuh County's 1860 census. He died during the Civil War in a Mobile hospital, so he is not on any 1870 census. Here is his family on the 1850 Butler County census: # 889 LEE, Bennett 30 farmer NC Delilah 25 NC Permelia 5 AL Elizabeth 3 AL *** Lovett 1 AL Here they are in 1860 in Conecuh County: #998/961 LEE, Bennett 45 MW Farmer 400 400 NC Delilah 36 AL Eliza 13 Permelia 11 **Lovett 10 George 8 Lucinda 6 Susannah 4 Lucy A. 2 My mother and uncle said there were also children nicknamed Lon (Alonzo) and Fanny. Maybe these were nicknames for two of the above. I have found a Lovet LEE (50-60 years old) with nine sons and one daughter on the 1840 Butler County Census, living two farms from Edward LEE, Sr., who is three farms from my ggg-gm Widow Mary BLACK. I'm thinking this Lovet could be Bennet's father, since Bennet's first son was named Lovet. Other Lees in Butler County in 1837-44 were Irvin, Young, Micajah, Benjamin N., Joel W., Isaac, Ned Nicholas, Sarah, Loverd, Elexander, Jeremiah, Nancy, Sally, Edward Lee, Jr., Nancy, Matilda, and Emily. Does anyone know the relationships among any of the aforementioned Lees? Many of them seem to be from NC, some from Georgia. Also do you know if these Butler County LEEs were related to the Conecuh County LEEs? I have found a George and Alonzo there [Bennet had sons with these names]. Cheryll Sumner (Mobile, AL) David Pope 2407 Hodges Bend Circle Sugar Land, TX 77479 281/980-8893 (Home) 713/412-1903 (Cell) [email protected]