Hi Heather, Lisa, Barbara and Everyone! I have been researching the William HANNAH family in Laurens for three years. The earliest date I have found thanks to Lisa is 1763/4 when he helped build the original Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church. We still haven't determined his wife's name but suspect it is Mary. I have followed his son Robert HANNAH to his wife Elizabeth TEMPLETON and her family when they went in 1802 to Dearborn Co. Indiana when it opened up. I have a lot on the TEMPLETONS now including David Templeton's will and part of the "Templeton Family History" by L. C. Templeton. I also have the "House of Hanna" book by Sarah A. HANNA in Brookline Indiana that tells wonderful stories of the Hannas and Templetons there. My husband's Hannahs are thru Samual Hannah Sr. and Rebecca CARWILE, daughter of Zachariah CARWILE and Mary McMAHON of Abbeville. When I found out that the ADAIRS were related I delved into that family and found out that John ADAIR married Nancy Hannah and who their respective fathers and families were. Now one family I have not traced is the POSEY family. I find that the HANNAH's and the POSEYS were intertwined clear back to Laurens. A Mr. B. L. POSEY acted as Elizabeth TEMPLETON's attorney as she couldn't write when she petitioned the govt. for a Rev. War Pension. I think he proved with affidavits from witnesses that she was the wife of Robert HANNAH but the govt. bureaucrats back then wouldn't accept it because she didn't have any phyical documentation from the church or state saying she was married to Robert in Oct or Nov of 1799. I just got his pension file from the National Archives in Woburn, Mass. this summer while I was in Boston! I find Poseys in Alabama with my Hannahs, in Hopkins Co Tex with my Hannahs and they finally intermarry in Limestone Co. Tex in the late 1880s. Now my husband tells me his father used to get flowers from a Mr. and Mrs. Posey in the mountains of Mayhill, NM. He said his father didn't know Mr. Posey but there must have been some sort of relationship there that my husband being a youngster didn't know about. It is just too coinsidental the way the Poseys and Hannahs end up in close proxsymetry to each other. Perhaps, Barbara in Kansas can help me get started in Laurens. Samuel Hannah bought part of a sawmill in Harpersville, Shelby Co. ALA from a James Posey in late 1860's. Then I think the carpetbaggers chased them out as there is no bill of sale of the property. They went to Miss. and then to Hopkins Co Tex. where Sam died as a wagon maker. I have some info on a Thomas Posey in Limestone Co TX. Thanks for all the help this list has given me in the past including Jett Plane, Rena, Rayford, Lee Adair, and Joe Duvall. Linda in Albuq. <[email protected])