Thanks to all of you who have helped me on these last stages of my eight-year quest for the parents of my great-grandfather, John T. Jones, born Hardeman County 1859. In 1991, at my mother's request, I set out to find her Jones ancestors from Hardeman County. At that point, all I knew was that my grandfather (who died when my mother was 11) was named Lee Ollie/Ollive Lafayette Jones, and that *his* father was John T. Jones, both born in Tennessee. I learned about John T.'s first wife (and my g-grandmother), Elizabeth McGlothlin, and found that her mother had been a Crain. Each little piece of information I found fit with my mother's vague memories of stories heard in childhood about relations named Crain and McGlothlin and mentions made of Toone and Bolivar. Through the help of my Crain/McGlothlin cousins, Elreeta Crain Weathers and Michael mason, I learned about Crains and McGlothlins and Gibsons and Parmlees and Sparkses and Cosbys --but until recently I had still not been able to find a parent or a single relative for John T. Jones. With the help of several of you on this list, I recently learned about Leollin T. Jones and Susan Dixon, who showed up in 1860 with a year-old son named John T. From there I went to the 1850 census, finding Leollin with his parents, John T. (or Y.) Jones and his wife Martha, and Susan with her parents, William and Eliza Dixon. I realized that I had never actually seen my grandfather's name written, and that the "Lee Ollive/Ollie" transmitted orally in the family could very probably have been "Leollin." Tonight I talked with a McClendon researcher who is in possession of a transcript of the family Bible of George P. McClendon and Margaret Crain McGlothlin McClendon (step-father and mother, respectively, of my great-grandmother, Elizabeth McGlothlin Jones). My grandfather's birth is recorded in that Bible, and his name is given there as Leoalen L. Jones. This, together with several other corroborating details (among them the fact that John T. was living with the family of Susan Dixon's sister, Elizabeth Dixon McClendon, in the 1880 census of Hardeman County) makes me believe that my search is over, and that I have found Mother's family. Thanks again to all of you for all of your help and for your patience in listening to the story, or pieces of it, again and again. I hope somehow my mother knows that I've found the family she was looking for. Nancy Harwood daughter of Thelma Lee Jones Davis 16 September 1912 - 20 February 1998