This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hall, Brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeB.2ACI/950.2 Message Board Post: Mary, Thank you for this great information. I found this book listed on the Abbeville gen website one time, but the person's email attached to it was not working. I would be interested in buying this book if I knew my relatives from that area were listed. If you are still being so kind as to do look-ups, would you please tell me if either of the following persons might be listed. (Unfortunately, my earliest Brown relative didn't die until 1897, but I do have some Halls in that area.) Just in case there is something other than a will, please check on these few names: JOHN W. BROWN, of Moseley (Abbeville County), he lived there from around 1838 - until his death in 1897. He was the chief carpenter for the Diamond Springs Hotel in the area and might have had his name on some document. And these Halls from Anderson County in that time frame: JOHNSON HALL, SR., 1785 - 1873 (Son of Fenton and Hannah Brown Hall, lived in First Creek area and later Little Mountain area, but then moved to Rome, GA) JOHNSON HALL, JR., November 11, 1811 - March 25, 1895 (born in Roberts Church Community to Johnson Hall, Sr. and Elizabeth Roberts Hall, lived here until death). First wife, Elizabeth Lackey died June 15, 1849; married second Sarah Catherine Ashley Hall, she died January 9, 1923. Johnson Hall, Jr. was one of the founding members of Union Baptist Church. Thank you so much for your assistance. Joanne B. Revell