This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barnes, Blair, Blaylock, Chappell, Clark, Hanes, Henson, James, Linn, Martin, McKee, Scruggs, Shaw, Smith, Starrett, Stephens Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zZB.2ACI/567.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello, Bessie!!! Your name is so familiar...so here goes! Is Linn your maiden name?? Was your father or grandfather, or uncle, a Columbus GW Linn?? ~Is your kin from OK- and a little Cherokee?? Here's hoping!!! Lum Linn was my ggrandmother's, (Mary J Linn's), uncle........ Let me know, okay......I'm getting way too excited just thinking of the possibilities!!!!! Jill