This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Counts, Russell, Brooks, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FKB.2ACE/711.712.716 Message Board Post: Joyce, My grandparents Pless and Edna (Russell) Counts lived in St. Louis when my dad Vearl was born. Grandpa talked several times about my great, great grandmother who was a Cherokee Indian and gave birth to twins in the cornfield, took them to the house and returned to work in the cornfield. Grandpa passed away about 8 years ago but grandma Edna (Russell) Counts is still living in Salem in the rest home. From reading your post I would say this might be the same family. My dad (Vearl) married Ava Jean Brooks and moved to Galena, MO when I was about 3 years old around 1964 he has a sister Melba Lee who still lives in Salem.