Hello, the list. Below is a portion of a letter trying to figgure out some Hairston/Grabener family relationship. Familys : DODD, CLENDENNIN, COTTON, KITE, WILLIAMS, HARDY,PETTY,MCLEAN, LOWREY, BRYANT,GRABENER, ELLIOTT, PATTERSON,POUNDS, COLLINS, GREEN, KELLAR,CRUTCHER, SAMPIER, NARRID, and a dozen others at least---ALL were in MILAM CO and intermarried. Cecil E. Grabener as being "Single". Later, you mention an Elva Grabener. Cecil and Elva Hairston were man and wife. I knew them well. Dad and Cecil use to be fishing buddies and Dad always call Cecil "Grab". Elva worked as a clerk in one of Rockdale Dry Goods Stores. I forgot which one---Lowensteins, I think. Cecil is a son of Charles Madison Grabener and brother of Kay Grabeners dad, Kermit Doyle Grabener. So Elva is a Hairston? As in a descendant of the daughter: Martha Louisa Dodd Hairston, child of James Riley Dodd that married James J. Hairston? So that would have James Riley DODD's granddaughter marrying Cynthia Dodd Graebner's grandson? James Riley DODD and Cynthia DODD Grabener were uncle and niece. Anyone know other relationships in the Hairston family that connected to the families listed up above? ---------------------------------- CYNTHIA DODD GRABENER and MARTHA LOUISA DODD HAIRSTON were first cousins with their fathers being brothers. (and both of their mothers were of maiden name: CAVE)