----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 9:40 AM Subject: more Marrs... > Hello Jimmy, > I've been reading yur Marrs note with great interest. I'm descended from > Jane Marrs & Theophilus Blount; Jane being a daughter of James and Anna > Shannon Marrs. I am through their son, James W. Blount. Do you have any > info on Jane and her husband, Theophilus, after they left Posey County, > IN in 1822 or 1823.Family lore says they had a big family "but James is > the only one we know about" and that they went to Arkansas. I've found > neither hide nor hair in Arkansas and personally think they went to > Missouri or followed Theo's two brothers to Louisiana. > I also see comments identifying James Marrs' father but see no > documentation. All I have for sure is James had a brother named William. > He (James) seems to have been born ca 1745-1755 which makes him somewhat > older than all the other James Marrs.Also read the fascinating info on > the Reids and Stewarts/Stuarts. What is the source of John Reid's > "colonelcy" and what evidence links his wife "lady" Mary to the royal > Stuart family (unless "Lady" was an inside joke of the family in the > 1700's) > Larry Skelton >