This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRYAN, PARSONS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1667 Message Board Post: 1860 Marshall Co MS census shows William F. BRYAN, farm overseer, in Holly Springs postal area with eight or nine children. In 1869, Wm. F. BRYAN moved to Limestone County TX, with only one of the children listed in 1860 census, bringing 13-year-old orphan Samuel PARSONS with him. Both Wm. F. Bryan and Samuel Parsons were born in Kentucky. Apparently, some of the children listed in 1860 married in Marshall Co MS, others died. My brickwall is:- How was my Grandfather Samuel P. Parsons related to William Fletcher Bryan?????