This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reed, Beck ,Bryan, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IhB.2ACI/85.2 Message Board Post: My Reed/Read line is similar to yours if only in the names...I have the following: Caliborne Read/Reed 1807-1845m.Nancy Lassiter 1-4-1826 Franklin Co. MS.Their son... William Wesley Read/Reed 1836-1862m.Arminda Elizabeth McManus 1-24-1857 Franklin Co. MS. They had at least one child.... Charles Eason Reed 7-8-1860 MS.( He is raised in LA. when Arminda remarries after Wm's death to William Ganey in MS. and they all moved to Lasalle Parish LA.) Since I don't know where Claiborne was born there might be a connection.??? Probably not....