This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: White, Ball, Harrell, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GJB.2ACE/581.1.1 Message Board Post: Stan, Sounds like you and I are very distant cousins. Alfred Harrell While, Sr. was my GG Grandfather. born 21 Apr 1835 Kemper County MS, died 3 Apr 1890 Meridan MS. Wife Mary Elizabeth Ball. He was a successful business man in and around Hattiesburg and Meridan, MS. They were married about 1856 and had five children (Lillie, Leila Elizabeth, Alfred H. Jr, Alma M. & Ralph). Mary E. died when Leila Elizabeth White was about 15 years old. Lilly was already married to E. A. Bolton and living in Lake Village, Arkansas. Mr. A. H. White, Sr. was apparently a Colonel in Ferguson's Brigade, Jackson's Divisional Cavalry during the Civil War because my mother has a photo of him in uniform and other documentation on that. If you have any more facts on Ann Harrell's family or Dorset White's I would love to have it. Thanks, John