THANK YOU ROGER. You have just provided me with a couple of new ancestors - under the sheets variety. p 15 of the new Quarterly - Joel Bryant of Greene had two children by, it appears, two different women - one was Blake Duwain RENTFROE. He is mine. I knew he had a middle initial D. Knew he was on the Greene Census in 1830 and the Lenoir Census in 1840 and dec by 1844. I knew there was some connection to Joel Bryant but couldn't figure out what. Wonder which of the mothers Joel married - Blake's or Peggy's? THere is also some relationship between Joel Bryant and Jeremiah Fields and his 2nd wife - if he ever married her. Joel sounds like he was a busy man. Is Duwain a surname I have never heard of? Does anyone have any information on the Rentfroe family as I assume the mother was a Rentfroe? Blake D. Bryant married Hannah Holland - I assume in Greene Co - and their daughter Mary D. married John Taylor in Lenoir County. Don't know anything about the Hollands either. The only Bryants I can find in Greene Co was the William who lived right on the border of Greene and Pitt and whose Will is posted on the Dobbs archives. He may have been out of Northampton Co where the name was spelled Bryan and he may have been connected with the Pettypool family. Any assistance would be appreciated. Martha