Debra said, "His sons fought for the Union in the 49th KY." This has nothing to do with the Rookards, but with the children of Edward Mayes. This morning as I was getting ready to post my information on Edward's family to the list (I DO need to check this information re Janes S. Kidwell out some more) and it occured to me that Mary Mayes husband, James S. Kidwell was most likely dead by the time the 1866 land document was filed. I know that it supposedly says Mary Mayes wife of James S. Kidwell (and undoubtedly does say this since I have a grreat deal of faith in Larry's transcriptions). However, Mary was most likely the "widow" of James S. Kidwell. Note that the reference to Mary is different from the other entries regarding the daughters and sons-in-law. Every now and then various pieces of infromation come together in my tiny mind. <grin> There was a Catherine Kidwell aged 62 listed in James and Mary Mayes Kidwell's household in 1850. I believe that this would be Catherine Wolf Kidwell second wife (and widow) of John Kidwell. I am not descended from Reverand John (that I know of anyway), but my lots of my relatives intermarried with this family. It runs in my mind James S. Kidwell died in Andersonville Prison. (It seems from my research that a lot more of my relatives and their connections died in various prison camps north and south than died in battle.) Somebody mentioned Grainger County Tennessee and its People 1796-1998". I understand there is a section on the Kidwells and I wonder if someone could do a lookup and see if there is anything about James S. or James Stirling Kidwell. Why would the reference to the Rookards who were Union men trigger this msg, (I am actually wondering how coherent this post is <grin> since it is getting very late here.) Apparently Mary Mayes's husband was a Confederate, however, the Greenlees (remember Mary Mayes Kidwell's mother was Nancy Greenlee) were Union men (I did find some interesting things about the Greenlees online). More tomorrow guys (I am about to fall off my chair.) Bye for Now, Gail in MO

Dear Fellow Researchers, Re: Greenlee's in the Civil War. I have been collecting some interesting information about the Greenlees on the internet for my original correspondent. One really neat find. A researcher named Gary Porter has posted a transcription of a letter written by John C. Greenlee to his Uncle Eli Greenlee to the Greenlee message board at Genforum. As well as telling about some of the Greenlee's Civil War experiences, there is also some information about various family members. Marriages, deaths etc. (Unfortunately it does NOT say Uncle Edward Mayes died in 186_ whatever <grin>) There is some information about James Mayes (most likely Edward's son James G. he is listed as living in the neighborhood of Eli McDaniel). The URL for the Greenlee message board: http://genforum.genealogy.com/greenlee/ The message is number 336. You can just insert 336 into Jump to # or you might try searching on Grainger to locate other messages of interest. Gail