Brenda, Thanks for filling me in on your Willson family. Isn't it funny how these families intertwine? I am still tracking Hammond & Pruitt families, both in Polk Co and in Butler Co, AL. Probably will find them with the Pickens and Caldwells in SC. Thanks for the offer of a gedcom but don't know if you would have anything on the Jones family in TX and LA that I don't have. Mother & Dad started seriously gathering information on Dad's family about 15 years ago & I got roped in almost 10 years ago. I have produced an outline for a book giving all the "hatching, matching & dispatching." The real help would be to tell me who James Allen Jones' grandparents were. I can identify his parents, James Jones & Lydia Wilson, but their parents are a mystery. Of course Dad always said that his ancestors burned down the courthouses as they were being run out of town. To add to your database: 3 Manton Pruitt Jones b: 7 Dec 1888 Polk Co TX d: 23 Jul1972 Lufkin TX married 1 Jun 1911 in Chester Lucy Clementine Watts b: 11 Jun 1887 near Chester d: 13 Aug 1962 Lufkin, Angelina Co 3 Manton Pruette Jones, Jr. b: 7 Apr 1916 Chester married 26 Ded 1945 in Lincoln NE Margaret Capron b: 25 May 1924 4 Patricia Ann Jones b: 2 Aug 1946 Lufkin TX married 27 Nov 1964 in Midland TX Ronald Edward Reece b: 30 Sep 1945 5 Catherine Louise Jones b: 12 Jun 1951 married 1st Jeff Lawless 1973 in Midland TX married 2nd David Hendrickx August 1996 in El Paso TX Enough on the Jones on the list. I will try to stick with Tyler Co folk now. Pat [email protected] ------------------------------