Anne: Checked my Davis data base to date for you trying to find anything I could. Nothing rang a bell. Sorry. SIN ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [MISSISSIPPI] I need help with John D. McConnell > Sin, Your reply was appreciated, but I think I got you off on the Martin line > which was Mary Mason Davis' Martin's first husband. Her second husband was > my Dr. John Dawson McConnell who I am researching. Her maiden name was Davis. > I have found her marriage misspelled in some online records as Marlin, but I > don't know how to correct this error. Anyway, I am hoping someone searching the > Davis line in MS or McConnell line in MS has some info. He moved to MS from > Indiana, was a teacher for a while, then moved to Vicksburg where he was > publisher of the Vicksburg Sentinel paper, then he married Mrs. Martin, and became > a doctor in the town of Brownsville. A genealogical contact told me a story > of how he shot her ggrandfather because of a misunderstanding about "the recent > unpleasantness" but I haven't found the newspaper source of that. Anyway I'm > looking for either's burial place and his parents, he was born in PA. Thanks > for all you're doing. Anne Klein > > > ==== MISSISSIPPI Mailing List ==== > Visit the Mississippi-L Website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mississi > where you can both SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE with a click of the mouse. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >