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/FdQBAEB/277.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I've never heard of the book but I'll certainly look for it now. Thank you much for the tip, and I'll look forward to any further posts from you. Rapides Parish, I'm sure you know, is about dead center of Louisiana. My grandfather also had a much younger brother or nephew named Kenneth Sweat. He wasn't as I recall ever close to the family, but I know he is still alive, and still in central Louisiana. Perhaps that will give more clues. Also my grandfather, after the war, was in the contracting business and worked for Tudor Construction Company as a supervisor many years. Thank You again for your interest. John