Dear Cousins, For all you cousins who have have posted messages on the List or who have contacted me personally about the ancestry of DELPHINE MONROE ("Dell", "Dill") SASSER, here is some good news. We have all been looking in the wrong place--in fact, the wrong state! Contrary to everyone's idea that he was from Covington County, Alabama, he was NOT. Covington County has had a very large concentration of our Sasser family since before 1820, when HOWELL SASSER settled there. All of the descendants in that county and several adjoining counties, especially Crenshaw, are all descended from HOWELL. Dell lived in Coffee County, adjoining Covington Co., for more than 60 years--most of his adult life. There have been a lot of other Sasser's who have lived in Coffee County (towns include Elba, Enterprise, New Brocton and Fort Rucker, the Army's helicopter Aviation Center is partly in the county). All the REST of them ARE descendants of Howell. But in Dell's case, he just happened to move to Coffee County and lived near enough to Covington County that some of his children ended up there too. Dell was buried at Brooklyn Church Cemetery in eastern Covington County, near the Coffee County line. Dell was actually born in Georgia. Where, I have not yet learned. By sheer accident, I just happened to find him with his parents in Webster County, Georgia listed on the 1880 US Census. Previously, a descendant told me he had learned Dell's mother was CHARITY WHITTLE. The census bears this out. Charity was listed as age 50, indicating she was born about 1830. Dell's father was JOHN B. SASSER, born in Putnam County, Georgia in 1826. Anyone descended from DELL, contact me. Your cuz, Robert Earl Woodham