This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Whatley, Dodrell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4508.1 Message Board Post: Lori: Do you know if any of your family settled in LA, coming from VA, GA etc. Our Marion was in the Civil War in LA. I found his records...but no name for his father. I would be interested in hearing from folks that have family in LA or from LA. He had a cousin D.S. Wells, that enlisted him.