This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BLACKMAN/EMBRY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GJB.2ACE/308.370.755.2 Message Board Post: MICHAEL I KNEW THE EMBRY FAMILY VERY WELL AS WE ARE RELATED. MY GRANDFATHER BARNET BLACKMAN BR 3 MAY 1884 KILLED IN RR ACCIDENT IN 1928. ANNIE BLACKMAN WAS MY GRANFATHERS SISTER. WE WOULD VISIT HER. HER HUSBAND HELPED BUILT OR FIRST HOUSE IN EAST ST. LOUIS ILL. HER SON MARHALL MOVED TO EAST ST, LOUIS TO WORK ON THE ALTON & SOUTHERN RR. ALL AUNT ANNIES KIDS WERE MY FATHERS FIRST COUSINS. WE SPENT OUR SUMMERS IN COLLINS MS WHERE MY GRANDMOTHER ELLA MAE BIGLANE BLACKMAN HAD A SISTER NAMED ANNIE BIGLANE CAUTHEN, IF YOU HAVE ANY OLD BIBLE RECORDS OR PICTURES I WILL BE HAPPY TO PAY FOR ANY REPRODUCTIONS ON THE BLACKMAN. CHARLES CASEY A SECOND COUSIN HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK ABOUT THE BLACKMAN/EMBRY CONNECYION. GENE BLACKMAN JACKSONVILLE FL