This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/3080 Message Board Post: Looking for African American information on Austin surname. My gr.grandfather, Perry Butler Austin, reportedly to either be born or lived a great part of his early life in Greenville, South Carolina. Oral history says family never slaves but free and his grandfather came from Ethiopia. Do not know any of his siblings. P.B. Austin possible moved to Little Rock, Arkansas for first mariage. Later moved to Indian Territory for 2nd marriage to Lena Britton. Their children were Herman, Harry (Otto), Thelma, Doreen and Mercedes. Any distant cousins out there?