Thanks for all help. You guys do a wonderful job. I am still searching for my STRICKLAND /GRAVES line. A cuz thinks that they may of been in Texas in 1860, before they show up in ARK for him to join the War . Some of the Graves stayed in Erath Co and had been in Hunt Co for a while,also. We cannot find this family on any 1860 census in Alabama or ARK. Maybe TX is the missing link. Thanks a bunch, MaryM ***** Elisha H. J. Strickland, b.1830 ALA Susan Graves Strickland, b.1831 GA children: Jane Emoline Strickland b.1851 ALA James Asberry Strickland, b.1853 ALA Elisha Wilson Strickland, b.1855 ALA Mary A. Strickland, b. 1856 Eliza Strickland ,b.1858 ALA