This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Garner, Sharp, Ward, Busby Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1752.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have John A Garner b Clarke County AL, 1815 who married Elizabeth Tillison, b Cherokee Co AL. 1829, They had 3 children (Francis Marion, John Anderson & Mollie Elizabeth) b in AL or MS. They married 3 Sharp siblings in Lafeyette CO MS who were the childen of John A Sharp and Martha Ward. John Anderson married Sarah Elizabeth Sharp. They had 6 children. Ira Tillson Garner was one of them. He married Lavena Pearl Busby in Kaufmann TX and then went to OK shortly after Statehood. They had 8 children. They are 3rd cousin to my mother. As far as I know they are the only ones of my Garners that carried the name to OK. The rest stayed in MS.