This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: runnels Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ElB.2ACE/551.1 Message Board Post: the runnels run in my family. My great great grandmother was Sarah Runnels which was married to Henry Mixon. Her father was Jesse Runnels (wife Jennie Jane Armstrong). Jesse Runnels had a brother James Franklin Runnels and they came to Texas about (1850-1860 from Perry Co. Mx) with their mother her name was Nancy. I don't know her maided name. A lady e-mailed me this information and said we were tied together by jesse and james.