This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Trent Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3195.1.1 Message Board Post: I may get in trouble too, but I see nothing in this to say that James (B.urton-O.sborne) Trent was a BLOOD BROTHER of Samuel Trent (son of Alex.Jr.-R.W. soldier)...... I don't have paper proof, only family stories told to me by several of the TN folks who unfortunely are all now dead and they did not have paper proof either.... BUT Samuel Trent never went by BURTON, and he always claimed to the be his father's first and oldest son and one has to assume that he meant via the wife Jane (Burton) Trent, tho it could well have been an earlier wife, but we have no solid paper proof or family story to say Alex. (Jr.) was md. before he md. Jane Burton. I SEE NO REASON to take this and jump to the conclusion that they (James B. O. Trent) & (Samuel Trent) are related via blood or from the same mother!!!!!!!!!!!!! ie.... Jane (Burton) Trent......... The closet one could come to assuming this is the fact that Samuel was born ca. 1790 and James B. O. was born ca. 1796 and that both would! then be the son of Jane and mystery William "Tink" Osborne who or which no one has yet been able to find or ID....... Plus how do you move either James B. O. & Samuel from one lineage line to the other??? Alex. (Jr.) vs. William D. (Sr.)-- these are two separate families and two different wives and mothers....... Jane vs. Charity.......