Don, Seems I recall my grandfather Campbell William Sasser (son of Wallace, son of Jesse) having a sister named Stella. And I think she was a younger sister. They would have been in that area of KY around that time. Stella spent quite a bit of time in Oklahoma with Cam's family after they moved in 1913. She may have even married and remained their for a number of years. I'm not sure if this is the same sister who married D. B. Hale and lived in Lawton...or if that was another sister. If you think this might be the same Stella, I'll ask Dad for more information. I do not recognize the name Frank. My grandmother was a Helton....so perhaps this is some of her family as well. Her father was a Baptist minister and missionary to the Cherokees. I am not sure of his first name. Grandmother was Ludie ( or Lucretia Fairlily in Cherokee). And we already know that Jesse married a Gilbert. One of granddad's cousins was Billy Gilbert, who starred in the Laurel and Hardy series. He was the big man who always seemed to be the blunt of their pranks. Anyway, all of these names seem consistent with the family, which made me think it could be "Aunt Stella". Also, I have been printing off the emails messages and sending them to Dad to read. When we were discussing some of the inconsistencies, he told me that he had always been told that many of the Sassers fled England in the 1600s to escape religious persecution. Several of them apparently moved to Germany and even changed their names in order to blend into the local culture and to make it more difficult to trace their whereaabouts. If this is accurate, then it could help explain the reason we keep encountering the variations of the name. I also remember reading about the Old English language and how there were no "s"s. They were all "f"s and then were changed to "s" when the language was more Americanized. Perhaps other letters were altered through the years, which would also lead to the variations of spellings and names. Sue Lynn Sasser-Williams