This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: shands Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FkB.2ACE/1301.2 Message Board Post: Information from buncombe.main.nc/us/senechal/patty wilson shows Polly marrying abraham shands around 1810. she had two older sisterd.,Catherine & Frances, who married anthony shands (abraham's half brother) as his lst and 2nd wives. When his sons were 5 and 2 abraham died. she remarried henry toal and had four more children: Rosenna, charles(is a tomestone in gholson century, noxubee county for him died in 1822); nancy jane and robert emmett toal. It is stated that she remained close to her son, HD (Hillard judge shands) and accompanied him to texas after the civil war. My ancestor is her son, Almaren Shands. Further info says he was a Methodist minister, who died in 1876 in Searcy, GA. I have not been able to find him on a 1860 census/ Any suggestiosn> I would like to double verify that my gggrandmother, Sarah Ann Palmer, was his child.