This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2N0.2ACIB/671.701.716.786.2.1.2 Message Board Post: You said: Didn't know if you were aware of the history of the Tollet family in the Howard County Arkansas Historical Society's book . The family ended up in Hempstead County, Howard County and some migrated to Texas. I have Tollette relatives who are descendents of the slaves. The all black town of Tollette, Arkansas was named after Steve Tollette who was one of the slaves. They use a different spelling of the last name. On the 1870 census it seems the blacks and whites spelled their last name Tollet (or, that is how the census person spelled it). Your name is familiar. I may have contacted you before. Didn't you know the Nashville, Arkansas Tollet's? Take care, Denise Hi Denise: Thanks for contacting me. I don't know that family, but what you have said is fascinating. "Tollette" is obviously of French derivation, the "ette" at the end giving it away. I'd bet that somehow the family line either traces back to Lousiana or right along the Missisippi River when the French controled that area. If the family is Catholic, that is a good clue. My McIntosh family is from Scotland by way of Londonderry Ireland in the 1740's. The Tollette family in America certainly predates that. Best regards and good luck with tracing this line. Steve