This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0lJBAIB/3794.2.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Doug, Your names are tantalizing. My William Stephens b. abt 1780 and died near Henry, Louisiana. His son was named John Vachell Stephens, b. 14 Oct 1820 in Louisiana. William married Rachel Clark. William's neighbor was James Clark. I can't find documentation to connect William & Rachel to this neighbor. It seem that the Stephens of every state named somebody William or John in their family. William's friends and associates were all men who came from states like Kentuck, Virginia and the Carolinas. I just can't get anybody connected and I'd try the DNA testing if I had a male line that had continued from William. But alas, William had only one grandson who died at age 12.