This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wedin, Fitch, Madewell, Rogers/Rodgers, Neal/Neel, White, Myers Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/172.361.362.646.6.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much for this post. It is interesting to me because my gggrandfather's name was Ira Griffin Neal/Neel. He was born in Ralph, Tuscaloosa, Alabama in Sept. 1835 and died in Anderson Co., TX in Oct 1900. His mother was Lavina J. Snider Neel born Aug 8, 1870 in Georgia (married Jesse Calhoun Neel in Tuscaloosa in 1833). Lavina had a brother named W. Griffin Snider born about 1829. I always wondered where the Griffin name came from and how they were connected. Any ideas if they are truly related or just neighbors? Also mixed up in this family are Sanford, Edwards, Latham. Lavina's parents were: William G. Snider & Mary Ann Sanford, both born about 1782 in Lexington District, SC. Lavina's brothers married Edwards & Latham. Thanks, Frances Wedin McMullen Palestine, Anderson Co., TX