This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EASTERLING, LEWIS, SKINNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4kB.2ACI/1658.2 Message Board Post: I am also researching the EASTERLING & LEWIS families who came to the Athens, Henderson Co in 1870, 1880s. There is an ANDREW LEWIS in the 1900 census from Cherokee Co, TX who has LOUIS EASTERLING, nephew living with him. Also on another census there is a JANE EASTERLING, mother in law living with a W.A. SCOTT. My grandmother who married into the SKINNER family in Henderson Co in the 1880s who named her child EASTERLING, also lived nearby to the Easterling family and her father was a LEWIS, mother was a SCOTT. The SKINNER family she married into was from Louisiana. I think there might be a connection to the families you mentioned. Let me know if I might have info you could use. Thank you. Barbara