This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sutton, Carroll, Trussell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EJB.2ACE/564 Message Board Post: A cousin sent me the following info (I have information on this family on my website at www.homestead.com/suttonplace/index.html) To: descendants of the Sutton's, Carroll's, Trussell's and others. The first Sunday in October, which this year is October 5, is homecoming at Hickory Springs church in Jackson Parish, LA, where John Sutton and his twelve year old son Senica M. Sutton are buried. Also many Carroll's, Trussell's etc. Many kin. John Carroll who fought in the battle of New Orleans was the preacher at this church many years. It is said that John Sutton donated the land for the church & cemetery. This is probably true since the old Sutton home place is across the road and about 300 hundred yards from the front of church. I have been to where the home was several times. The church was built in 1898 replacing the log cabin church that was located on the other side of cemetery. I have a picture of this log cabin church which was torn down many years ago. Also on sa! me date every year not to far from Hickory Springs is the Jimmy Davis Tabernacle where they are having their I guess you would call it homecoming because it was built on the old Davis home place. Mary & I knew Jimmy Davis so attended one time before he died. Plenty singing, we enjoyed it. The Hickory Springs homecoming consist of all day singing in the church, visiting on the grounds, dinner on the grounds, telling old stories etc. This is where we came from. Senica Sutton born Jan. 19, 1853 was the brother of Henry Fletcher Sutton, Stephen McKinley Sutton, George Washington Sutton, Jackson Whitfield Sutton and Emily Jane Sutton McCoy. At 12 years Senica died of a fever October 2nd 1865 just before his dad got home from the Civil War. John was captured in the battle of Irish bend just out of Franklin, La. April 14, 1863. We do not know how long or where he was held. John died in 1870. John's family originated in Jefferson Co., MS.