This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Strother Cotton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/2076.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: James and Sarah "Sally" (Cotton) Strother are my g-g-g-g grandparents. I have been listing James' birth year as circa 1780, so, of course, your date of 1777 may be correct. How did you come by that year? James Strother definitely died in 1829. He did not have a will, but his estate was settled in October of 1829, leaving Sally Strother his widow. This Sally Strother, his widow, was not the above Sarah (Cotton) Strother, but was Sally (Stewart) Strother whom James married in 1820 as his second wife. Sarah "Sally" (Cotton) Strother died about 1817.