I am very happy to see all the recent activity relating to the Howell Family :) I have been researching the Howell's for the last 15 or so years making sevral trips to the Wayne/Perry county area and libraries and cemetaries. I have corresponded with sevral of you and even recieved a gedcom file from a gentleman on here that opened it up 4 generations back for me and allowed me to confirm some stuff that i had found just 1 week before in the Memphis library. I have also said that i had pictures of Fannny and Lanny Howells tombstones and that some one on here thought they did not have one. I have the pictures but I will have to look them up. Should be able to do that this saturday along with send out some information I have on the family and some bible records. What I will probly do is post them at my web site and send out the address to it since they are so big as far as pictuers and bible records. I am a 911 dispatcher and we have been really busy lately with not enough staff and just getting some new help and I have been away from my computer for about the past 2 months just being able to send e-mails and such from work. I will have to get re-organized and send out some stuff ASAP which will probly be this weekend :) Also if anyone has any infromation on the Giffords it would be GREATLY appreciated my Grand father was Willie Earl Howell his father was James Stephen Howell who married Ada Estelee Gifford(Guilford) who was the daughter of Methodist Minister William Bedford Gifford I have bible records showing W B Gifford being married 3 diffrent times and I will not even get into the first two wifes cause there is a mystery there between the bible records written by him and the marriage records and the census records that conflict so much as to insist that he was married to 2 diffrent women at the same time or possibly sisters or some such. It hurts my brain to think about it at times. If anyone has any information on this though I would be eternally gratefull. I will have the bible records and pictures of at least W B Gifford and some other relatives up by saturday evening more than likely.