Hi Earl, I could not find any connections that would make us cousins. boo hoo I thank you for all the info. I used some of it to fill in a few blanks. I will keep the data in my Elliott. I do have abt 150 of your ancestors in my computer, but most of it you already have. However, I can send you an attachment with those 150 individuals in it. The 2nd wife of Fred Elliott is Jewel Ham. Jewel is my 2nd cousin. I have visited them about 7 times in the past 15 years. They live on Rich Hill in Ashe Co. I have a prepared Bio, which I will include here. Good luck on your quest. Paul BIO OF PAUL J. PHIPPS I was born 22 Nov. 1919 in Shady Valley, Johnson Co., TN. I’m getting so old, it is hard to have a short biography, but here goes. My parents were Quincy Ahart & Margaret Jane (Bowling) Phipps. My mother was b. 1898 in Bristol, VA & my dad was b. 1894 in Lansing, Ashe Co., NC. Both are deceased, and are buried in Seattle, WA. I have one younger brother, Edga r William Phipps, who was born and lives in Seattle. My dad was in WWl, and when he came home from Europe, he realized there was more than Lansing, NC. He went job hunting and found one in Seattle. I was about 2 months old, when we left Shady Valley for Seattle by train. I lived in and around Seattle all my life, except for 4 plus years in the Army in WWll. The War ended, while I was still in basic training. I landed in Japan in October 1945. Spent the next 4 years in Japan most of that time with my family. My youngest daughter was born in Yokohama. My family consisted of a wife, 2 daughters, and 1 son. All who still live in Seattle. My second wife of 16 years died in 1994, and I am currently a widower. In 1951, under the GI Bill, I started college at Seattle University. At the time, I had a wife, 3 children, had a home, and was working full time as a supervisor at Boeing. I was so dumb I didn't realize I couldn't do all that at the same time. I graduated in 1955, and entered the Engineering field at Boeing. I retired in 1980 from The Boeing Company after 41 years. I was a Lead Engineer in a MR&D group. My specialty was metal forming. I first became subconsciously involved in Genealogy, when I saw the TV series, Roots. My comment was, “I don’t know, where I came from either”. Then a niece, who had become a Mormon, asked me in 1985 about our ancestry. I couldn’t give her hardly anything. I knew both of my grandfather’s names, and that was it. I had never knowingly met even a cousin. Well, my niece not knowing any better, wrote a letter to the Bristol, TN Post Office, asking them if they would put her in contact with anyone living in the area named Bowling, my mother’s maiden name. Lo-and-behold they did. My niece received a letter from an Ida Mae Boling. It turns out that Ida’s father was my mother’s brother, so Ida and I are first cousins. I thought that was pretty neat, so I asked my niece to ask Ida if there was someone I could write to. I received the name, Curtis Bentley, who lived in Shady Valley, TN, where I was born. Curtis answered my letter, then there were the phone calls, and the next thing I knew I was on an airplane going to Shady Valley. Curtis’ mother and mine were sisters, so we were first cousins. I was surprised to find that there were 3 aunts and 1 uncle on my dad’s side that were still alive. I met the 3 aunts, but never saw the uncle, as he didn’t live near. One day in Bristol, TN, I met 8 first cousins and their mother in one house. Their mother was an aunt, but by marriage. When I got back from that trip, I was a hooked genealogist, and had even learned to spell the word. In 1989, I bought a computer. My handwriting was so bad, that even I couldn’t read it. People then started answering my letters, and I was really on my way. I am on my 4th computer and have over 37,500 people entombed there. I may not be a great genealogist, but I am an avid one. END