This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Starnes Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.greene/5144.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jacob and Martha (McNeese) Starnes had the children you listed and I have one more: Elias H. Starnes b. abt. 1839 who m. 25 Nov 1869 Martha Ellen Bright b. abt. 1848 and they had children: Mary (Mollie) b. 16 Nov 1872 d. 20 Nov 1905 who m. abt 1891 George W. Shipley (3 Sep 1872 - 15 Sep 1905) Children: Mattie Pearl (1898-1924), Doil A. (1901-1902), Opal Gertrude (2 Nov 1903 - 1954) m. Roy Jay Hensley (29 May 1902-1988) and had 8 children whose names I have if you want them. Martha Ellen Bright was daughter of David M. and Elizabeth Bright. Thomas J. Starnes b. 1872 George A. Starnes b. 1875 d. 223 Feb 1945 m. Louisa Unknown abt. 1899. Opal b. 1876 Sarah Ellen b. 1878 Elias H.Starnes' sister Susan Caroline m. Andrew Jackson Grubbs 6 Dec 1863 and had 6 children whose names I have if you want them. His sister Elizabeth m. John H. Brown 19 Jul 1862 and Thomas B. Weems 7 Sep 1856. His sister Barbara Jane m. David A. Forester 27 Jul 1864. Sorry I don't remember my source.