This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4402.1 Message Board Post: Leslie, I'm also working this line, via another son, William Legrand Wells, b. 1827 Monongalia County. I show eight children, with your Albert the youngest. Where did you find Charlotte's DOB? That's interesting about the Civil War politics (I'd heard the rumor of a family rift). William (my 3X gr-grandfather) fought for the North. Did Albert then fight for the South, and thus the split?