Hi, I am interested in making contact with any descendants of John B. Markham and his wife Sarah E. Upshaw, and also of Sarah's father John Upshaw. John B. Markham married Sarah Upshaw 1843 in Noxubee Co. Miss. they were in Bienville Parish LA by 1849 or before. John B. Markham was stabbed to death by a Mr. Morris at Morris' home near Minden, LA in Feb. 1856. The Judge let Morris go without charges. The widow, Sarah, was left with with five small children, 3 girls and two boys. She was surrounded by her father, John Upshaw, her brothers T.A. and James Upshaw (James was sheriff of Bienville in the 1860s). Sarah and her brothers were in Bell county by 1867. They lived near Holland. The Post Oak Cemetery is on what was the farm of James Monroe Markham, one of Sarah's sons. The other son was John Bunyon Markham. Sarah died in 1902 and is buried at Post Oak, not far from her two sons and other family members. Apparently she never told her children that their father was murdered, they thought he disappeared or died in the Civil War. Mrs. Sarah Schultz, who was living in Temple when I met her in 1974, was a relative through John Upshaw. She was accepted into the NSDAR in 1974 on the Revolutionary War service of our ancestor, Lt. Leroy Upshaw of Amherst Co. Va. later of Elbert Co. GA. Some of the family related names were Warr and Fancher. David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbeckha/coordinate.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmfiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm