This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Arnold, Bryant, Fullilove, King, Laws, Taylor, Wade Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yIB.2ACE/18.446.582.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Sharon, Believe it or not the info on LA reinforces the connection! c1820 a bunch of the Oglethorpe Co.,GA folks, including Fulliloves, Bryants & Taylors that went to LA. Some other Carroll Co., MS folks, the Bankstons also were there. By 1850 & on they start showing up in Carroll Co.,MS. I have a pretty good feeling these different brances kept up w/ each other b/c they all connected again in MS. Just seems some took the LA route & others went to AL for awhile. In the shelby Co.,AL marriage records is a Thomas Arnold to Mary Wilson 12/1/1819. That's the same year/place my Sally Arnold married her first husband John F. Taylor. In the 1820 census for Shelby Co.,AL there are 2 Thomas Arnolds along w/ my John Taylor & other known relatives. By 1830 there was only 1 Thomas Arnold, the other one could have been your Thomas gone to MS. In 1830 some of this family herd was still in Shelby, AL but some had moved on to Autauga, AL. By 1840 none were in Shelby & had all moved to Autauga. By 1850 they split again, this time w/ some moving on to Choctaw & Carroll Co.,MS., but the majority of the Taylors stayed in AL. I think there might be an earlier connection as my Long & Mullen families were in MS very early like your Thomas Arnold. In the census records it seems all the folks I've mentioned are clustered together year after year. If they weren't related when they got to MS I'm sure they were eventually! :>) Maybe we should compare more names? Cindy