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/FdB.2ACE/277.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Mariah, You might be able to help me-but, then again, maybe not. I've been searching for the parents of James L (or S) Brazil for about 50 years. He lived in Panola County, and the family was said to have come to Panola about the time of the Civil War from an area near Rock Hill, SC. Incidentally, they lived in the Rock Hill community in Panola Co near Carthage. Mr. Brazil served the Confederacy. In 1864 while on furlough due to illness, he died on the way home. I never knew him, and actually he is my wife's ancestor, but he is a hero of mine. His last letters are very poignant. Here is what I know of him. Said to have come from an area near Rock Hill, South Carolina about the outbreak of the civil war. He ended up in Confederate service, and wrote letters home in 1864 which the family kept. One letter was from Navasota where they were temporarily encamped. The next letter was a few months later when they were at Sandy Point, Texas. Sandy Point is near the mouth of the Brazos River, and it was here that the confederates expected the union forces to invade. In his letter, he mentioned that he was sick. Shortly afterward, a man rode to Rock Hill (a community in Panola County, Texas near Carthage) and told the widow, Martha Jane that her husband had died on the "veranda of a store" in Nacogodoches, Texas, some 45 miles to the south. Martha Jane was grief-stricken and neglected to get enough details from the messenger. Nevertheless, she got on a horse and rode the 45 miles to Nacogdoches, hoping to recover her husbands body and bring him home for burial. Alas, she never ! was able to locate the specific place where he died, so she rode back home. The couple had several children. Among them, Mary Adella Brazil; Osborn (according to obit, but his name could have been Osman);Thomas and Margaret. They may have been others who died. In 1865, Martha Jane married William McCain of Beckville, Texas who was listed in the census records as a master carpenter. I found a Jacob Brazil in York County who is about the right age with a wife named Jane who is about the right age with children name Ardella, Osman, Margaret. I think this might be he, but am not sure. If you know of anyone in York Co I might contact, I would be grateful. Thanks.....Delwin Delwin Moore 221 Browning Carthage, Tx 75633 903-693-5687 delmo@sydcom.net