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/VKB.2ACE/1104 Message Board Post: My grandfather, Samuel Buford Mizell was an early Maries County Judge according to Glennis Southard in his book about High Gate. Does anyone know how I can find out anything about how he became a judge. What kinds of cases he decided? Was he an elected or appointed judge? Did Maries County have a newpaper at that time, and did he ever make any headlines? Was Vienna the place where he was a judge?