This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lyons, Manis, Moore, McCorkle, Leeper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3433.5 Message Board Post: I would appreciate any info you can find on the following Hawkins County families: Ben Lyons (African American) & Betty Manis (white) early to mid 1800's. They could not marry. Betty had a brother George Manis. Ben & Betty had a dau. Samantha Manis. Samantha's mother gave her away when she was a young girl, to <Joe> McCorkle who raised her along with his 2 dau Ella Jo & Callie. Samantha Manis married (1) Henry Boone Moore (unsure of his ethnicity, he was light-skinned & his people looked white), (2) an Alvis (3) a Delaney Samantha & Henry Boone Moore had a dau named Inez Pearl Moore b. 2 Sep 1906 d. 1942. Inez Pearl Moore m. (Pvt) John Franklin Leeper <1919>. John was b.16 Jul 1884 d.26 Nov 1955 in Ohio Thanks for your help, Chyleen