Hi Don, Thanks for the information on the Cummings line. I have a daughter Sammie born to Samuel and Almeda Cummings Petty about 1876 (after Samuel was killed). She is listed on the 1900 Taney Co. Census living with her mother and step-father, Nathaniel St. Clair. I have information from another researcher that she married someone from Gainsville, moved there and had two daughters. I don't have her married name. Asbury "Buck" Petty, Samuel's brother, married Melissa St. Clair 12 Jul 1888 in Taney Co. I don't know if you are researching St. Clairs. I have four daughters for them, Minnie, Estella, Laura and Gladys. I'm descended from their brother, Isaac Petty, who married Tabitha Frances Estep. After Isaac's death she married Joseph Mosley in Taney Co. I have the same children listed for Jacob and Mary Ellen Petty Cummings that you do. I was told that Mary Ellen died in childbirth (I assume when Sarah was born). She died in Taneyville and is supposed to be buried in the Cummings Cemetery. I'm afraid that's all the information I have on these lines. It has been slow gathering facts about them. I just keep trying. I also need information on Jesse Boone Petty who married Catherine Roller if anyone has information on them or the Roller family. I can't find them after 1880 in Taney Co. Marlene