From an Alabama researcher regarding our Black family: "I have speculated that Thomas M. Black and Hugh M. Black were brothers or cousins and that one or both's father was the John Black with Butler Co. land in 1837 who died or got skipped by 1840's census. I think John Black, Hugh Black, and Robert Black on the 1830 Lancaster Co. SC census were the "three brothers" I've heard about in family stories who migrated from SC to Butler Co. I'd love to prove my theory, but courthouse fires and destroyed records in Alabama and SC make that difficult! " Does anyone have info about these brothers? Freda -- Researching my Southern Families: Roberson/Robertson/Robinson,Bonner, Blakely,Wright, Sills, Thornton, Canterbury, Godbold, Solomon, Pate, Grice, Herron, Regan, Sims, Boles, Jones.