About the record on JOSIAH SASSER from Ida Brooks Kellam, listing four of his children with ELIZABETH BRYAN: I believe this was JOSIAH SASSER Senior and he apparently had more than four children with Elizabeth. His will names the children mentioned in the record from Ida. His children should also include JOSIAH SASSER Junior. Josiah Sr. devised land to his son Josiah Jr. prior to his death about 1781. Josiah Jr. later apparently sold this tract of land to his brother JOHN. In 1803, John, through a deed of gift, gave this same land to his two brothers WILLIAM and LEWIS SASSER. William died in March, 1815, without any children (he may not have married). His estate records indicate he had a sister, ELIZABETH SASSER, who was not married as of 1817. There apparently was another daughter, MARY ("Polly") SASSER, born in 1779 who married first to WILLIAM STEVENS and after his death, to BENJAMIN BRYAN. On my family sheet of JOSIAH Sr., I have the notation: 1832 Johnston Co., NC (Elizabeth--Deed) and 1833 Twiggs Co., Georgia. For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the 1833 Twiggs Co., Ga. notation is for because I didn't write it on the family sheet. Normally, I put down a date and location for a record I find, on the front of my family sheets to let me know where they were living at a particular time (especially for the census records). I checked to see if I had a deed record in Twiggs County but can't find it. Did Elizabeth and her second husband move to Georgia? By way of explanation of why some children are not included in wills (besides the age-old problem of favoritism): in many cases, a father would give his sons land or other property as they came of age, to help them get started with their own families. It was customary to give the children property through "deeds of gift", so if you can't find a will for an ancestor, try looking for such deeds. If you luck up, you may find one which generally states "I give unto my beloved son...(or daughter)...". I know of quite a number of old counties that have only a handful of wills but if you check the deeds, they may turn out to be a gold mine of family information. Robert Earl Woodham ------------------------------