Posted on: Covington Co. Ms Queries Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ms/Covington/896 Surname: Dykes, Graves, Rutland, Bullock ------------------------- Dawn, Thanks for the reply and I'm sorry I haven't answered sooner, but my computer has been down. The info on Mary Ann being born in Scott Co is interesting. I haven't checked that area. I had heard that her parents had gone to La shortly after they were married, or at least before 1819, when the child, William R. was born, at least the oldest I have on record. Perhaps a check of the Scott Co census will reveal something. I am interested in anything you have on the Rutlands. I'll correct my files about Isaac's date of death. My files are so incomplete anyway, it is unreal. This family line is very hard to trace. I'm in search of the Rutlands and, like you, I've decided maybe I could get in the back door, since they shut the front one. I checked my Graves file and didn't find Sarah Jane, which doesn't mean anything. It certainly seems likely to me that there will be a connection, since the Rutlands, Dykes, and Graves are already connected, all from the Covington Co area. It is too co incidental not to connect. Do you have a James Dykes, Jr, who married Jemima Chain? He went by "Little Jim" and is buried in the Rutland cemetery, Mt Olive, Covington Co, Ms.? I don't know if he is the J. B. listed in my chart. If so, I have an interesting story about him. Loretta