This elusive gentleman leaves Screven County, Georgia in the mid 1820's for Gadsden County, Florida. So far as I know we have not found his origin or his death record. He patents two land plots about 1830 and disappears from the records. In poking about the Gadsden County webpage, I am told that the Court House burned 12 Nov 1849. Nor is there a listing for James P. in any of the sexton's records at other Gadsden County sites. Very, very likely his son is one John P. Poythress m. Mary Dolan. This line still exists and has at least one researcher. John P. is listed as voting in Florida's first statewide election in 1845. John P. Poythress (for whatever it's worth) shows in Confederate pensions with an original application date of 1888. Pension file # AO1832 only lists John P.'s regiment as "Louisianna." However, since this is a Florida pension application, we might be entitled to speculate that John P. enlisted in Louisianna and then returned to Gadsden County at some time after the war. Does this open anything up for anybody? Maynard