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/192.979.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: If you think 20 yrs. is long, try this: I started this at 8 or 10 yrs. old with my grandmothers - they were both into it - and I haven't stopped since. I'm an ancient 54 now! That means at least 44 yrs. of this with time off for only babies and teaching! I'm now retired and loving it more than ever! Mastin has a middle initial of "N." according to the following: The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research SCMAR, Volume XX Number 3, Summer, 1992 Marriage, Death, and Estate Notices from the Greenville Mountaineer, January 25, 1850 - June 22, 1904 (Continued from Volume XX, p.72) SCMAR, Vol. XX, Summer 1992, No. 3, p.157 In Equity: Lewis H. Shumate, trustee vs. Mastin N. Stone et. al. It appearing that Sarah Bagwell and Christopher Bagwell her husband, two of the defendants in the above are absent and beyond the limits of this State. J. P. Moore, C. E. G. D Bec. of this and several other things, I don't think he is Mastin Martin or vice versa. In census reports, etc., I have seen Mastin as Martin, Maston, , but he is always listed with the same family. I think this comes from the unfamiliarity of the name Mastin by these census takers and the fact that folks didn't used to care so much about name spellings. Mastin was born ~1806 when a large number of other men were named Mastin; must have been a popular minister or someone named Mastin that they picked up the name from. I didn't get the equity file from LDS but from the Greenville Library. I haven't used LDS but keep intending to! As far as all those left portions in Micajah's file, the Micajah B. STONE there is the Micajah who md. Millicent "Milly" JOHNSON. The H. BAGWELL may be Hembree STONE, a dau who is unaccounted for in this list. I believe that the rest of those who are not STONES are sons-in-law of Micajah's; it was so common to discount the daus in the estate if she had a husband. He seems to have left a lot of children, certainly not uncommon. I have the info on some of them, but will need to pull some more files. I have just changed computers, and it's made my life difficult! You can email me directly at DMPringle@sc.rr.com, if you would like. Thanks for all your input! It helps me to rethink things! Another cousin, Dolores Miller Pringle