Posted on: Pontotoc County Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Pontotoc/809 Surname: PARISH, CONNELLY ------------------------- My grandfather Charles Wesley Connelly was in the Chickasaw Nation prior to statehood. There is a marriage record for: CONNELLY, CHARLEY 26 PARISH, MATTILA 24 20 JAN 1907 LONE ELM They are listed on the 1910 Census as living in the Holford area and have two daughters, Buela Mae Connelly and Rosa Lee Connelly. By 1920 they had moved to Kiersey in Bryan Co. In 1922 Mattila and her two younger daughters, Hazel and Winnifred, were killed in a house fire. My grandfather then moved to Albany in Bryan Co. and later married Ruby Elizabeth Stallings(my grandmother). Buela Mae Connelly married William Fred Sawyer and moved back to Kingston, Marshall Co. were she died in 1948. She is buried in the Highland Cemetery, Durant, Bryan Co. Fred Sawyer died in 1961 and is also buried in the Highland Cemetery, Durant. Fred and Buela had a daughter named, I believe, Carolyn. We do not know what happened to Carolyn Sawyer and would welcome any lead that might help locate her. I have found a record that indicates Joseph Booker Parish was in Pontotoc Co. and had at least two children, Martin V. Parish and Johnnie Mae Parish. Johnnie Mae Parrish shows to have been born in Lonelm, Marshall Co. I am hoping someone can supply informaiton on this family.