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/SFB.2ACI/2159.1.1 Message Board Post: MyGGGranfather was Downs Brewster Doyle, born in White County, TN in 1817. My understanding is that Sarah Elizabeth was his younger sister. A significant portion of the family moved to what was then Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, in the early 1840s. The area is now part of Webster Parish, whose immediate neighbor to the west is Bossier Parish. What I have is sketchy. James Doyle relocates from Maryland, possibly Hagerstown,and had numerous offspring: James (married Sarah), Alexander, Leah, RHODU(A)M (born 1789?), Sally, John, William, Mariah, Mary, Simon, Eli Reese, and Oliver Miller, who moved with their parents to Pendleton District, now Anderson County, SC -entire comunity was apparently Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. James purchased property there in 1806. RHODUM married Jane Sarah Brewster about 1807 in Anderson County, SC. In 1860 Arkansas census shows him as 71, with Jane his wife, living with his daughter, Priscilla and her husband Burnett Denny in Madison County, and listed as blind. Jane was the daughter of James Brewster and Mildred Downs, both of North Carolina. Mildred’s father was Henry Downs, Jr., who was born in Pennsylvania in 1728, married Frances Chew in Orange County, VA, in 1750, and died in Providence, NC, on 10/08/1798. His father, Henry Downs, Senior, was born between 1698 and 1710 and immigrated to Philadelphia with is newlywed wife, Lady Douglass, in the first quarter of the 18th century. The children of Rhodum and Jane included Rhodum Doyle, born in 1814 in South Carolina. The 1880 Census lists him as a farmer in Seneca, Oconee County, South Carolina. Another son was DOWNS BREWSTER, born in 1818 in White County, Tennessee, taking his names from his maternal grandparents. After acquiring property in what is now Webster Parish, LA, he returned to Tennessee to marry his sweetheart, Emeline Austin, and they returned to Louisiana. Any details you can fill in would be greatly appreciated.