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