I am a recent subscriber because I have just begun to work on the family of my gggrandmother Hester Massey. Born 1809 in Tennessee to Joshua Massey and Elizabeth Ellis. I know of two siblings, Hardy and Lewis. Married in 1826 in Lincoln County TN to Thomas Casstevens. His parents unknown but he had a grandfather in Surrey County NC. Their children Jasper M (1829), Lewis M (1831), Sarah (1832), John P (1836), Thomas B (1838), Matilda C (1841) and Joshua W (1844) born in Lincoln County TN. Two more Elizabeth (1847) and Nancy F (1850) born in Cumberland County IL. Thomas died in 1852 and Hester married William Langston of Coles County IL in 1855. About 1858 they moved most of their combined families to Texas, to a part of Ellis County that is now in Johnson County. Langston died in 1859 and Hester in 1884. For now I am looking for clues to Hester's siblings and her father's mother. LBWithers