This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WHITTINGTON, OLIVER, SHELTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TUWBAIB/660 Message Board Post: Our OLIVER line was from Georgia and Alabama. I found a William C. Oliver md Elsey WHITTINGTON 11 May 1828 Pike Co. GA Perhaps he was William Chapman OLIVER. Also found on 1850 Cherokee Co TN 23rd District page 125 Wm. OLIVER age 43 GA Aisley..............age 41 GA Wm.......................19 GA Frances..................16 GA Thaddius.................14 GA Rebecca..................12 GA Virgil........................10 GA Charles......................8 GA James.......................6 GA Sterling.....................4 GA Emma.......................2 GA Sarah Alice Oliver was born Nov. 1850 in either GA or AL, she was the youngest of 10 children. She had a sister named Rebecca, and a brother Jimmy (probably nickname for James) She also had a sister Josie, perhaps Frances or Emma had the middle name Josephine and they called her Josie. Sarah Alice's father was Chapman OLIVER and her mother was Emma WHITTINGTON. William C may stand for William Chapman. Sarah Alice's first son was James Virgil (named after her husband James Knox Polk Shelton) and her brother Virgil? The Aisley and Elsey confuse me, but wonder if it could have been Alicey and was mispelled. (longshot I know, but WHITTINGTON/OLIVER connection nevertheless. Sarah Alice also had a son named William C.. So many name similarities and number of children convince me this is our OLIVER line. Sarah Alice stated in her pension file they moved to TX in 1863 when she was 13. Is anyone researching this OLIVER/WHITTINGTON family? Please contact me. TNKS~~Dee Colvin