Posted on: Anderson County, SC Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Anderson/1579 Surname: osborne ------------------------- Phyllis, Thanks for the quick reply! Actually, maybe I can help you if your are still interested in the Osborne line. Bud Osborne was my grand-uncle. Your grandfather and my mother were 1st cousins so I think that makes us 1st cousins at some remove. You and my 2 daughters would be 2d cousins? If you are not familiar with it, you might want to get a copy of Harold Travis Parker's "Pioneers of Hart Co, Georgia." You can get it through the inter-library loan program of your local library. While it has a fair number of errors in it, it is a good starting place. There is a detailed section on the William Osborne family which includes your family line and mine. There is at least one Revolutionary War patriot in the line (John Osborne of Amelia Co. VA, who was at Gilford Courthouse and the seige at Yorktown, according to Parker) Also, if you haven't seen it, I posted a bunch of stuff from the cemetery at Reed Creek Baptist Church. Lots of Osborne's there, including Bud and his wife Jesse. Off the top of my head I don't remember if your grandfather O.C. was buried there. Go to usgenweb.org click on the Tombstone Project, Click on Georgia, Click on Hart Co. By the way, "Bud" was a nickname and my mother says she never heard him called anything else either. They were always "Uncle Bud and Aunt Jes." I think he was Coleman Osborne. If so, your grandfather may have been junior. I didn't know that they were divorced. Would be interested in any details of that, and I'll ask my mother if she knows anything. I'm going to send her this whole chain of postings that your original query started. I can also send you what I have, I can give you my mother's phone number in Atlanta, or I can go away! Are you still in touch with Gina Scott? Do you think she would be interested in any of this? Barry Clark Fredericksburg, VA