This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILLS - - GRAY - MOORE - BORLAND Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/2076 Message Board Post: Help sought for location of and information concerning two Mississippi plantations. 1. Plantation in northern Marshall County, MS owned or operated by Baptist family named Wills or Wells with 17 slaves, of which six were youngsters, in 1859/60, located six mies from Bihalia and nine from Holly Springs. Virginia LaFayette (Davis) (1834ME-1886AR) , Oliver Crosby (1832ME-195AR) and infant son Clyde Leslie (1859MN-1861AR) GRAY, school teachers, lived and taught school here 1859/60, coming from Montecillo, MN, later going to Princeton, AR for school year 1860/61, he then commandor of A Company, 3rd Regt. Ark. Cav. Confederate Army during raid 20 Dec 1862 of Holly Springs, MS. 2. A plantation in Marshall County, MS owned, until death in 1843, by Augustus MOORE (1788-1843), father-in-law of Dr. Euclid BORLAND (1809VA-1881VA) who operated it for Moore, brother of Senator (Col) Dr Solon Borland (1811VA-1864TX). Your help will be appreciated.