Alice, I have good news and bad news. The bad news first: The E. L. Dooley that Sin located in the CSA is probably not your E. Dooley. The good news: I located Elijah J. Dooley, age 30, a farmer born in Mississippi, in the 1870 census. He was living in DeSoto County, Mississippi (Township 5 Range 9) and the Post Office was listed as Arkabutler. With him were his wife Emily, age 20, born Miss and their 8 month old child, Susan who was also born in Miss. Now you have a name and a county in Mississippi so that you can begin to focus your research on a specific area. Good Luck! Everette Carr --------- Original Message --------- DATE: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:35:34 From: "Alice Leonard" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sin, Thank you so much for this information, now if I could only find out his full name, I'd be elated lol. This man has had me hitting the brick wall for a long time now lol. I'm not able to got to the archives in MS to do any research, I live in NY and so all my searching is done via the web, I keep hoping that maybe someone will see the name and it will be part of their line. I have no idea what county they lived in so finding them on any of the census records between 1850 and 1870 is next to impossible. I know that E. Dooley's wife Emma/Emily was in Arkansas by 1880 with the 3 children, Susan, William and Frank. So I'm assuming that E Dooley must have died between 1870 & 1880. The surnames I'm researching are: DOOLEY and McNEELEY from Ms, VANDERGRIFT, VANDERGRIFF from Tn and Ar. Again, thank you so much for your help. Alice From: "Edward Hall" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [MISSISSIPPI] Alice Leonard HIT *****YAHOOO****** Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:31:49 -0800 E.L.Dooley Company F. Rank in and out 2 Lieutenant Roll-box 000232 Roll-Exct: 0011 Roll-Record 00001334 Allegiance: Confederate MISC: (nothing mentioned) UNIT: 18 Mississippi Cavalry. I love Milky Ways...(VBG) SIN ==== MISSISSIPPI Mailing List ==== ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10