The following new message has been posted on Forum at <http://www.tngenweb.org/dickson/webbbs/queries/index.cgi>. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#979) Re: Finding my father's family <http://www.tngenweb.org/dickson/webbbs/queries/index.cgi?rev=979> AUTHOR: Marilyn Wall Du DATE: Sunday, 4 February 2007, at 2:29 p.m. Reply To: (#975) Finding my father's family Author: Marilyn Wall Du Date: Monday, 29 January 2007, at 5:23 p.m. This isn an addition to my previous query. Scanning lists, I find George William Wall, born 1855, with a wife, Alice. One lister mentioned him having sons Esquire, Burbon, etc. My father had two older brothers he called S.Q. and Burven. S.Q. Wall was a Marine in WW I and died here in Evansville, IN in or about 1935-6 of tuberculosis. My father bought his grave and had his headstone engrave with 'Slayden Esquew Wall.' His other brother was Burven, or Burvin Wall, who in his later life lived in Clarksville, TN,where my father visited him sometime before his death. Russell Wall, my father, mentioned only two female names for three people of importance to him in his life. He said that his mother died when he was a child, of rheumatism, (rhuematic arthritis, maybe?) and he was reared by his stepmother. He seemed to love her, but never, in my memory told me her name. The two names he mentioned were Alice Bow and Belle Doll. I may have found Alice, but where is Belle Doll? If George William Wall had a wife, Alice in 1910, she would be his 2nd wife, my father's stepmother. I can't find Belle Doll, though there are enough of them on the lists. I can't connect them with my best prospects for her husband. I suspect that either William Thomas Wall, b. in Dickson, 1848, or Jesse Burgess Wall, b. Dickson Co., 1847. Neither are shown to have a wife named Belle, but it could have been a nickname. I wonder if Jesse Burgess Wall is the same person as the 23 year-old J.B. Wall, who was wounded in or near Williamsburg, VA, kept in hospital there for a month, then released for active duty again. He, too, was from Dickson Co. and he was in the 8th Cavalry, commanded by Baxter-Smith. I lean toward Jesse as George Wm's father, because another loose name I have rolling around in my memory is Jesse, but I don't remember if he was a brother of my father's or an uncle. Do any of these names fit together better for someone else? Sincerely puzzled, but curious now, Marilyn Wall Durham *************************************************************************** This is an automatically-generated notice. If you'd like to be removed from the mailing list, please visit Forum at <http://www.tngenweb.org/dickson/webbbs/queries/index.cgi>, or send your request to molliehsimpson@comcast.net.