Well, our Maggies have different parents but all is not lost yet. I've narrowed my Jesse down to two possibles in the 1850 Greenville Co. Census. One Jesse, 10 yrs old, is the son of James & Judy Wooten and the other Jesse, 11 years old, is the son of Eber & Catherine Wooten. Eber & Catherine also have a son James who is 14 yrs old in 1850 - this is a possible for your James David Wooten, I think. There are no Wootens in the 1850 Anderson Co Census - so it makes sense that your Maggie Wooten could have come to Anderson Co when my Lelia did, especially if they were cousins. I have no evidence yet that Jesse & Emily moved from Greenville Co. to Anderson Co. I'm off to look at the website you mentioned. Hope to hear from you soon. You Wrote: "Subj: Re: Maggie Wooten - c 1875 - GNVL CO SC Date: 98-02-17 14:28:12 EST From: [email protected] (Steve Pearson) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi Donna! Oh yes, and thanks so much for getting back to me! I really hope I can solve my Wooten riddle with this new information you have. The possibilities are there. The only information I have is the following: Maggie- whom I've come to know as Margaret Elizabeth, by way of a distant cousins research, was ( all this according to her death certificate - which is extremely hard to read ), born in SC June 14, 1878, to J. H. Wooten and Mary Jane Griffin. She died on Feb 8 1937 of obstructive Jaundice probably from a gallstone. She died in Anderson Co., Belton, SC. Full name on the certificate reads Mrs. Maggie Wooten. Widowed- husband was C. J. Alverson. The clerk had to have been somewhat sloppy as the name was in fact Charles Agustus Alverson- known as "Gus", so when someone said C G he or she may have heard C J. Place of Burial was Pelzer SC.The picture of this certificate is blurred and my cousin when she sent it to me felt the need to write over in an attempt to trace over the pertainent information, thereby leaving the interpretation up to her as to what it read. I'd like to see a copy for myself. Her age also traced over, reads 61 yrs 7 mos and 20 days. Problem is the math comes out to only 59 years between what she says the birth and death dates are. Therefore I assume that it would be more difficult for the clerk to screw up the death date than it would be to screw up the birthdate, so the death date I accept and therefore place the birthdate at abt. 1875. I have found a web site at http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/davidwooten/default/index.htm that has a Margaret Elizabeth born in SC abt 1875 with the parents being as follows James David Wooten and Mary Ann Brown had the following children: 472 vi. Eli Bryant Wooten was born about 1865. MARRIED 1ST COUSIN MOLLY PINSON 473 vii. Catherine Wooten was born about 1867. MARRIED SEABORN HARRELL 474 viii. Molly Wooten was born about 1872. MARRIED PRESTON PARKER 475 ix. Margaret E. Wooten was born about 1875. Problem is when I got ahold of the owner of the site he was no help. Not able to tell me anymore of the person nor from whom he got the information. Anyway if you can help I will kiss your feet!!! Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you! Steve "