This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.queen/574.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: William Queen, Jr. who was born in 1810 in Rutherford County North Carolina. William being one of the youngest males in the family did not get very much inheritance from his father. Most went to his older brother and sisters in the family. With what he did receive, he married Mary Rayford and together they moved to Holmes County Mississippi. He lived a short distance from one of his brother who encouraged him to move to Mississippi. There just like his father before him, he was a farmer by trade, share cropping the land he was on. While there, William and his wife Mary had seven children, all born in Holmes County Mississippi. Either before the born 1820 Georgia, Civil War between the States or just after the war, William took his family by wagon across the states to Texas. There they settled first in the northeast and later moved down to the town of Christman in the county of Milam. After Williams's death in 1887, his wife Mary moved to Rockdale Texas until her death in! 1905. Children of William and Mary Sarah Jane: b. 1834 Holmes County Miss d. 1901 Burleson County Tex Catherine: b. 1842 Holmes County Miss d. 1876 Burleson County Tex Elizabeth: b. 1849 Holmes County Miss d. 1879 Caldwell TX Louisa H: b. 1851 Holmes County Miss d. 1890 Burleson County Tex Susan Ann: b. 1853 Holmes County Miss d. Unknown William L: b. 1855 Holmes County Miss d. 1929 Annona Tex Franklin W: b. 1862 Holmes County Miss d. 1895 Gause TX (Rockdale) James W: b. 1864 Holmes County Miss