Sherry, Thanks for your reply to my post about the Brents cemetery marker. I should have done my homework a little better. In doing all the many searches for this James Brent that is my mystery man I have run across this James Monroe Brents and Rhoda a number of times. I should have looked before I wrote that post. However, maybe someone will pick up on it and send something about the man I can't find. I have corresponded with you briefly before. There are several family connections posted on your web pages that are connected in some way with my family. Do they call it collateral lines? I am sort of a novice at all this. Also, I have enjoyed reading all the posts about the CHESTNUT RIDGE COUSINS activities. Carolyn Crowley is one of my new friends that I have made in my genealogy pursuits. We have met and she keeps me informed about a lot of new of Lincoln County. I never lived there but my father was from there and I was lucky enough to have made many, many trips to Fayetteville as a girl and then as an adult until about 1980. I have been back a few times since I have been on this genealogy jag and hope to go again. My Brent is James Brent who married Martia Stacy Douthit Ellis in 1854. They were living in the Petersburg area in the 1860 Census. I have searched for them in the 1880 Census and cannot find either but Stacy was still alive as I have seen her tombstone in the Buchanan Cemetery. I also have a Mary (Polly) Brents who married James Clift. They were my gr gr grandparents and were living in Lincoln County in th 1850 Census and possibly 1860. They were both born in early 1800--about 1805-1810 from ages shown on census. I have seen a Civil War Pension application for one of their sons and he shows his mother as Brents b. NC. I know that she must have been related in some way to some of the other more well known Brents in Lincoln and Marshall Counties around the same time frame, but just cannot find out the connection. I am also up a tree with her husband, James Clift, even though there were a number of Clift people in the area during the 1800s. I know several other people who are also looking for these Brent/s with no luck. You seem to have the most information on Brents of anyone that I have seen. Maybe one of these days some new person will see one of these posts and join in with some new information. Thanks for your reply and keep me posted if anything seems to fit. Joyce Park Riggs