I am not sure of our Wootens because my great grandmother Ellen Beatrice Wooten Cook Lilly lived with a daughter by her second husband, George Lilly, in Oklahoma when she died. We aren't even sure of her burial place, but we *think* we may have located it. My grandfather, R. I. Cook, was about 8 or 10 when his dad, Alfred G. "Fredda" Cook, died. "Grandma Lilly" married George Lilly and had more children. I have a couple of pictures of Grandma Lilly (Beatrice Ellen) after she was older. I found a family group on this list that sounds like it might be our Wootens because one of the daughters in the list had the same name and birthdate as our "Grandma Lilly": John S. Wooten, b. 1815, LA m. Caroline, b. 1824 MS Children: Francis b. 1841 Laura b. 1844 John S., Jr., 1847-1914 William b. 1850 George b. 1853 Susan b. 1854 Ema b. 1857 Ellen Beatrice 1860-1930 Following are stories that my auntes sent me. Both are in their 80s, but they seem quite sharp mentally. Probably the stories they heard from their grandmother are accurate remembrances. "Grandma Lilly told me when she was a little girl living near Houston that Sam Houston visited her parents. Sam Houston bought horses from Grandfather Wooten. One time he brought Beatrice [Grandma Cook Lilly] a pretty dress." "When President Lincoln freed the slaves, Grandma was about 4 years old. She said the slaves wrung their hands and said, "What will we do? What will we do?" "When Grandma and Grandfather [Cook] married, the black nanny went with them. When Papa [R. I. Cook] was born, the nanny cared for him until she died. Papa remembered her. He said she would chew his food for him before he grew teeth. When he told me this, I said 'Ugh!' Papa said, 'She was a clean lady [and] that was the way babies were fed before baby food." Betty -- Betty Dawn DuBose Hamilton Paternal: DuBose~Morgan~Smith~Pitts~Pynes~Hampton: SC>FL>AL>TX Maternal: Cook~Polk~Wooten~McDonald~Sowders~Rodgers: TN>TX Please look at our Family Mystery Album: http://home.att.net/~bhamilt mailto:bhamilt@att.net