Well, I always hold my breath and once in a while, it works! But I don't think so this time. I'll admit I don't know anything about my James Shannon except for what I posted. I have seen the 1850 Tippah County Census and there appear to be a number of Shannon brothers who were all born in Tennessee who were all in Tippah Co (later merged into Union Co) in 1850. I was in New Albany, MS over the Labor Day holiday and met with a direct descendant of one of these (I'm guessing) brothers (it was his grandfather!), but he knew nothing about any other Shannon boys. Then he pulled out a book compiled by the county that gave selected family's histories and whoever wrote the article wrote that 5 Shannon brothers came to MS from TN, and that one, Crocket, went further south into MS. This would jibe with the info on the Federal Census, but who knows. We have seen, in some writings that James' name was James Leander and some wrote James Leander Crocket, but his headstone in Liberty Cemetary just says James L. Shannon. James Shannon married my great, great-grandmother, Mary Jane Boswell, and their oldest daughter was Cynthia Shannon. Cynthia married an Inmon and they left MS for TX in 1892 or thereabouts. Mary Jane Boswell, at some point, came to TX, as she is buried alongside Cynthia in a little cemetery outside of Aquila, TX. Why and when she left James there in MS and came to TX, we can only guess. If there are any clues here for you, I hope they are good ones. Thanks so very much for replying so quickly. I am fairly new at this, but it surely gets exciting, doesn't it?