Debbie: Yes 'mam. Eva Poythress was my aunt. She was the sister of my father and was born in Screven County and lived there all her life. Her three children are all still alive and the oldest, Wendell, is now the official patriarch of the Screven County Poythress-Wells reunion (an honor obtained by outliving whomever had previously been oldest so it is not especially a hotly pursued title given what it leads to. <g>) In the "images" section of the Poythress webpage under Horace Cullen Poythress and family, Eva is the little girl of 6 years on the far left. I'm just a little surprised that Bill Reeves "picked her out of a crowd" so to speak, Eva is usually shown with siblings almost every place I have seen her. Here is the description line on that generation which is well documented. 18. Horace Cullen (1) POYTHRESS. Son of John Maner POYTHRESS & Rhoda E. GROSS. Born 23 Jan 1867 in Screven County, Georgia. Died 6 Jun 1918 in Screven County, Georgia. Buried in McBride Meth. Church Cemetery, Sylvania, Ga. Occupation Farmer. See photos of tombstones for Horace Cullen Poythress and Flossie O. Wells, McBride Methodist Church Cemetery, Screven County, Georgia. He first married Mary E. MERCER, daughter of Edna A. MERCER, 30 Jan 1890 in Screven County, Georgia. Born 10 Mar 1846. Died 16 Dec 1899 in Screven County, Georgia. Buried in Gross Family Cemetery, Sylvania, Georgia. Photostat of marriage license for Mary E. Mercer and Horace Cullen Poythress in files. Ordinary: M. M. Potter; Preacher: N. J. Flanders. Gross Family Cemetery (Mary E. Mercer) is located 1.5 mi. N. of McBride Methodist Church, Screven County, Georgia...in old field left of Conner Landing Road. Tombstone inscription: Mary E. Poythress nee Mercer, Born 10 Mar 1846, died 16 Dec 1899; "He giveth His Beloved Sleep". He second married Flossie O. WELLS, 3 Oct 1900 in Screven County, Georgia. Born 8 Oct 1878 in Screven County, Georgia. Died 7 Nov 1914 in Screven County, Georgia. Buried in McBride Meth. Church Cemetery, Sylvania, Ga. They had the following children: 26 i. Helen POYTHRESS 27 ii. Etta POYTHRESS 28 iii. Mattie Eva POYTHRESS 29 iv. Horace Cullen2 POYTHRESS 30 v. John Maner POYTHRESS 31 vi. Trudy Edith POYTHRESS 32 vii. Elwin Matthew POYTHRESS 33 viii. Myrtice POYTHRESS 34 ix. Juanita POYTHRESS All of the siblings and their spouses are now dead. The last, Dorothy, wife of Elwin Matthew Poythress, died last week at age 91. She by far had out lived all the others. Eva's husband, my Uncle Charlie, broke the code on coining money. When Union Bag Co. built the first slash pine pulp paper mill in Savannah, they were contracting for cut pine tree suppliers. The deal was for "x$" amount of "cord feet" (or however they measured the stuff) and the supplier got to keep the land at the end of the deal. (Usual corporate brains and foresight in action). Charlie Austin borrowed enough money to buy a couple of pulp wood trucks and some chain saws, hired a bunch of "chain saw operators" and went into business. He racheted himself up into being the prime supplier and never sold an acre of the land. He wound up with about 12,000 acres at the time he died in 1972. A cousin and I at ages about 9 through 11 spent several weeks each summer with Charlie Austin as he managed his business interests all over Screven and Effingham counties. It was every bit as Faulknerian as it sounds. Maynard