I am descended from John Wesley Soloman and Elizabeth Covington who had the following children. The firstborn, Emmett W. Soloman born in 1851, Marion County Georgia. He married Mamie Allen in 1875, he later moved to Houston Texas and founded the First Methodist Church of Houston he was 50 years of age when his father died in 1901, and preached into his ninties The Russell Register which carried Rev. Soloman's the father's obit mentioned his arriving in Alabama from Texas for his father's funeral. The other children of the couple mentioned above are Henry Land Soloman Sr. 1853-1940, died, Troy a salesman for Teague Hardware. John Thomas Soloman 1855 married Laura Emma Price they were my greatgrandmother Oates's parents. She was born Mamie Elizabeth Soloman d.b.11/Jan/1883 married Walter Bragg Oates 1/Feb/1903. She died 14 years after he did 11/Apr/1969, Mary 1857, William 1860, Sarah 1862, Ellen Corinne 1867-1950, Ralph H. 1869, James A., 1870, Frank Nesbit 1879-1951. Mamie's siblings were Eva Price Carroll 1880-1988, Emmett Curtis, Ralph Sporman, Emma Kate, William, Robert E., and Corine "Aunt Co". If there is anyone doing research on these please email me at LeBateman@NetZero.Net, so we can exchange information. All but Rev. Emmett W. were born in Alabama. John Thomas lived in Montgomery Alabama from 1860 until 1870, he grew up in Russell County. He married in 1879 in Florida, and died in 1902 in Headland Alabama. Le _____NetZero Free Internet Access and Email______ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html