This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reid/Knight/Stokes/Sanders/Bessinger/Preacher Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.reid/2452.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dear Mary, Thank you so much for your information and I'm so sorry not to have gotten back with you before now. I went to Dallas in 2005 to help my daughter after surgery and have had unexpected health problems so that I haven't been back to SC and haven't yet had my things (including family pictures and genealogy) brought to Texas. I promise to keep you in my notes here and send a copy of the picture of Sophia and Lemuel once I have it in hand again. I haven't been able to find the connection between my Reids and them. Red hair runs in our Reids, too. I'm curious about the Stokes you have listed as one of your family names. My mother's side of the family also includes two Stokes connections. My mother's maternal grandmother Mary Ann Knight b.1850 St. Peter's Parish, Beaufort, SC. was the daughter of Ann Stokes b.1829 and John D. Knight b.1826. My mother's paternal grandmother was Julia F. Bessinger b.1853 daughter of John W. Bessinger b.1825 and wife J. Elizabeth Preacher b.1829 whose mother was Sarah Stokes b. abt.1800 wife of David Preacher b.1792. Both Ann and J. Elizabeth Stokes are dead ends in my family history. Would you happen to be familiar with these women? Both are in the Old Barnwell District 1850 Census and are surrounded by Stokes. Again thank you for your post. Any help is always appreciated. -Mimi