This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Weston, Babb, Brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4205.1.1.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much Jim. The info thaat was given to me said that William Babb married "MARY BROWN". But the Mirey makes more sense. I do know that their daughter, Elizabeth Babb, was my G Great Grandmother. She traveled to SW MO. with the wagon train led by my G Great Grandfather, James Weston. They went to Barry Co. MO. while his brother, went to Sullivan CO. MO. with the Coopers.He also married a Brown, but an Aunt of Mirey's I believe. True? This was sent to me. from a letter by Edgar Weston, descendant of James Weston: "My great great grandfather James Weston born 7 Mar 1807 Greene County, TN m. Elizabeth Babb, born 1 Sept. 1810 Greene County, TN. About the time that they were married, James and Elizabeth Babb Weston along with William Babb born 1786 TN and wife Massa, Mercy, Mary Brown Babb born 1785 VA, moved from Lick Creek Greene County, TN to Hawkins County, TN about 3 miles from the Virginia line. The date was 1827. William Babb became Justice of the Peace in Hawkins County, TN. He was a Cabinet Maker. James Weston was a Wagon Maker and Blacksmith. He also did farming. A large group of SW Virginia and NE Tennessee people began moving to SW Missouri 8n 1831 and later the Trail of Tears or Cherokee Removal from East Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia brought many soldiers, freighters (? spelling), wagon makers, blacksmiths, etc. through Barry County, Missouri, down the old Indian Trail. They went back home and many moved to SW MO and some Babbs came on the Trail of Tears and returned to E. Tennessee in 1836. In the spring of 1851 - 12 or 13 wagons led by my ggg father, James Weston came to Barry Co. MO and settled. He located in South Barry Co. Mo and established a farm and built a blacksmith shop at a crossroads about 2 miles from his farm. Early in 1858 the Butterfield Stage and mail line to California improved the old Indian Trail and cut trees to widen it for stage coach travel and the Butterfield Stage US Mail began in 1858. It passed less than 2 miles from my ggg father James Weston's blacksmith shop. A stage stand to furnish horses, stagecoach and harness repair, an Inn to feed....." .........Jim Sloan!, I don't know who wrote that, he must be a cousin also. But I am also happy to meet annd greet you. I hope to attend the next Brown Family Reunion. Thanks again, I will be out of state without a PC for a week, I bet my mail box will be full. Candy Elizabeth (Candy) Taylor Huntsville, AL