Ruth, Thanks for replying. As I'm sure you guessed from my query my husband is descended from Joshua and his first wife Obedience. As Obedience preceded him in death... but after he received his land through Austin's Colony... I would be inclined to think that the two graves would be those of Obedience and Joshua. Especially as his second wife Joyce remarried. Do you think that there might be a possibility that the "Ratliff cemetery on the hill" could have grown up around those two original graves. The John F. Martin listed in the Oakland Cemetery Book would have to be John F. Martin, Jr. son of Caroline Hadley Martin Hill and the John F. Martin that I am looking for as he died in 1846 just two years after JFM, Jr. was born. But thanks for the name of the cemetery. I have been very careful to document everything that I have added to my database and really needed the name of that cemetery to keep it up. Thaya