Dear Fellow Wooten Researchers: To set the record straight -- with reference to my earlier posting inquiring as to any information as to the forebears of William J. Wootten, b. 1801, m. Susannah Grant, I indicated he was born in Pickens (Walhalla) SC. It has been called to my attention that we have no authentication that this is indeed the birthplace for William J. Wootten. I do not, in fact, know where William J. Wootten was born; however, his son, Francis Marion Wootten, according to information, was born in Pickens (Walhalla) SC in 1828 (d. 14 January 1901 DeKalb County, AL) -- Sorry for the error and the confusion. Dellaphine Wooten Tenney