I am sending this to the list also as it seems maybe I didn't give enough infomation when I first wrote to the list. I promise I will not be a bother to your list and if no one can help I will just keeping searching. The 1860 Lauderdale Co., MS is on line and I checked it out there is two William T. Williams listed at age 10, both have parents Eli Williams and Martha A. Williams. One Eli is 30 born MS Martha 25, William as only child. The other Eli is 35 born MS Martha A. is 26 born Al with five other children. I have taken the first one as my William T. Williams parents as it is stated that 1880 and 1900 census that both his parents were born in MS. I have checked the home pages and found a William T. Williams with a wife as Mary E. but a differant last name but I will go back and recheck to see the parents name were. I know that William T. Williams married Mary E. Lane as it is listed in the book: Lauderdale County, MS 1842-1900, Computer Indexed Marriage Records Hunting for Bears Inc. I was at the Jackson Co., MS Archives and found this in 2001 but I have not had a chance to return to MS to do more research and we do no have a lot here to look through. Mary's mother was Martha "Thompson" Lane, her Father Francis Asbury Lane, she had three sisters Mary, Martha and Ella Viola, only one brother out of five that survived the Civil War and that was Francis Asbury Lane Jr. They were all born in Ga. Cheryl