My gggmother, Clarissa, wife of the Rev. David Lorenzo WHITAKER (1823-1906), has been eluding me for 19 years. Just about everything I've seen on her gives her maiden name as Pruet or Prewitt, but Dr. Prewitt, the Pruett/Prewitt one name researcher, never heard of her. (I corresponded with him about her.) I have been told by a relative that the relative who listed her as a PRUET in a family notebook in the late 1800s or early 1900s must have copied down her maiden name incorrectly. I've combed Anderson county records looking for her maiden name and/ or parents -- no luck. About the only other possibility is that she was, indeed, from Georgia. The first opportunity I will have to check the Georgia Archives will be in December. (I'm a first semester grad student at Clemson. I don't have time for any trips to Atlanta on weekdays during classes.) It is extremely likely that she was either Native American or had a significant amount of Native American ancestry. In addition to family pictures, this would explain some odd events in the family history since she married my gggfather in 1843. David was a Methodist lay preacher and carpenter who was assigned to Ruhamah Methodist Church for several years in the 1800s. Clarissa is buried in that cemetery, as well as their two daughters who died young, and one of her grandsons, as well as her descendents who married into the MCGUKINs. Ruhamah Methodist Church is on the shores of Lake Hartwell: it's off that last turn on US29S before the boat ramp. I live in Easley. Elizabeth Whitaker