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/XeB.2ACI/1121.1138.1146.1147.1148.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I think I have said before but repeat--Col. Leroy Springs, owner of cotton mills, had no brother named William who lived to adulthood. Actually brother William Myers Springs died at the age of 7 1/2 months. You can check this in the York County Library in the book "Squires of Springfield" by Katherine Wooten Springs. There is a genealogical chart on pp. 332-33 which gives the names of Col. Springs' brothers: Alva, Andrew Baxter, Jr., John, Eli, Brevard Davidson and Richard Austin Springs. There is an uncle of Col. Leroy Springs who was also named Leroy Springs (1811-1863) married to Amanda Moore. He died from wounds received in the Battle of Petersburg but he had no brother named William. There is the possibility of a distant cousin (not first or second cousin) being the William Springs claimed to be the cousin of Col. Leroy Springs of Springfield plantation but he would not have lived in the Fort Mill area. Louise Pettus