In a message dated 1/20/2005 3:09:20 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Karol, Do you happen to know James middle name or his birth date. My brickwall is James Armstrong Wilson, b. 1814 in IN. As the story goes he was in the Merchant Marine and came down MS River, got off the boat, and was walking back home through the state of MS when he met my GGGrandmother, Sarah Jane Hubbard. He went to work on her father's farm, and settled in Lawrence County, MS. He is my GGGrandfather and that is all the information we have. We don't even know what area of IN. Diane Minton Smith Diane, Do you know if your Wilsons married into the Armstrong family? I see the middle name Armstrong and I believe there was some intermarriage based on documents I have seen while researching my own Wilsons. I dont have the info in front of me now but believe it was early 1800s Hawkins Co., TN. I dont directly have any Armstrong connections. janice