This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/424.1.1.2.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Shawn, Virtually all the Isbells in your area come from a Pendleton ISBELL of Polk/Bartow Co., GA, who had about 10 kids (all born early 1800's). One of these, a Jeremiah ISBELL, had large family, and about half his kids came to the Iola, TX area in mid-1800's. Because Jeremiah's younger brother, Samuel, married into the KEITH family, I consulted a lot with the researchers in the ISBELL family, but mostly about earlier events and genealogy (not about houses). The elderly researchers have pretty much died off, but several are still around....Truman ISBELL lives at Madisonville. In Grimes County, there is a John Maxwell who is very knowledgible about people, places and history of the Iola section of the county. You will likely find him (and elders of the section) at "Homecoming"...this weekend or Memorial Day, at Keith. Shouldn't be hard to find an oldtimer there or in Iola who can tell you all about your house. Besides that, there surely was a title search done by your title company! when you bought the house. This would show a chain of ownership, earliest to present, from the deed records.