Hello, I have just been researching my Garrett family of Tippah Co. My gg granfather on my g grandmothers side was John Garrett of Chalybeate, MS. His family background is somewhat clouded since some family members consider him a bastard child. My great aunt, Ruby Garrett wrote my mother a letter in 1977 where she mentioned that John Garrett, b. Jan. 13, 1847 SC. He came to Tippah Co. as a young orphan, on a wagon, while in MS he was assisted or raised by the Lominich (Lommineck?) family and the Spencer Gibbs family when in Mississippi. I have assumed he was reared constantly in Tippah Co. but he may have been in a nearby county for some of the time. He married first Cornelia Gibbs, daughter of Spencer, and had a few children, second he married Alpha Talulah Bobo, daughter of Dempsey Bobo, and had my Grand Mother. Jewel Bobo Garrett. The only information I have been able to find on the Lommineck/Lominich family is a marriage of Nancy Lommineck, b. 1828 SC, died 1893, buried Union Cemetery, Chalybeate/Jonesborough, to Hiram Jackson. They were married in 1853. According to the Heritage of Tippah Co., Vol. I, he moved to MS from SC about 1850, and married Nancy Lommineck who reportedly lived in the Baldwyn community at that time. They lived in the Chalybeate area. Does anyone have any information on the Lommineck/Lominich family? Does any one have access to the 1860 / 1870 / 1880 cenus for information on this family and the Gibbs and Garrett family? Many thanks for any information. Ron Hughes