Hi Royce, I'm John Poythress' father John Maynard Poythress. Glad to hear he made contact with you.. I guess peddling boxes may be in the genes. I did the crime in south Georgia 68-70, was sales mgr. in Dallas 70-72 and general mgr. at Inland's Louisville plant from 72 to 97 when I retired. Figured I'd been about as far west and as far north as I ever had a notion to go so I just camped here in Louisville, did I guess an average job raising my kids and otherwise tried to enjoy myself. For several years a number of us have worked the Poythress genealogy but I can't say with any NC sucess to amount to anything despite the fact that all the demographics say there are more of us in NC than any other state with VA and GA 2nd and 3rd or the other way around, I can't ever remember which. Anyway, there are some 90+ of us on a reasonably active list-server although only about 20 or 25 of us ever seem to go on the air, the rest being welcome "lurkers". If you'd care to visit the site and just poke about I think you'd enjoy it. We need Carolinians as there are only 3 or 4 on the list that I ever hear from. The address is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poythress/poythressmaster.htm .....I think you'll find it interesting and if you decide you want to join the list-server discussion group, even if only to lurk, the instructions are on the webpage. There is seldom more than one message a day so it doesn't exactly spam your mailbox. Again, nice making touch with you and hope we'll see you join the group. Best regards, Maynard Poythress