Hello Karen, I see another message from you, which came in tonight. Will try to answer this one quickly. Sorry to confuse you. You are the one who gave me the information about a David Thomas who married Amanda Taylor/Tailer. I have not discovered anything like that information. I have been reporting David Thomas related information as I find it. It will be up to you to sift it and figure out if any of it refers to your Thomas family. What was interesting to me, was that David Anderson Thomas's family included an Amanda and also the same names of the children, who you list as belonging to this mysterious Amanda [Tailer?] The Greenbrier Book [Heritage 97] lists David Anderson Thomas as marrying Amanda Melvinia Dyches. Their children are the same names and a couple extra, that you list for the Amanda that you are talking about. Is it possible that the Amanda who married David A. Thomas, was a Taylor/Tailer by birth or prior marriage? You mention a marriage record. If Amanda Dyches was her prior married name, she could have been a Tailer/Taylor by birth. I don't know, I am just trying to psyche out the information and make it fit your criteria. :-) The 1850 census also lists an Anderson Thomas, with a wife Amanda and the same children's names. I think that these families stand a good chance of being the same family that you are looking for. At least they stand a chance of belonging to the same family as the one they are discussing in the Greenbrier Heritage 1997 book. :-) Let's see if we can narrow the Thomas family down by date. Then compare it to the date of David A. Thomas that you know about. Do you have other information about him or this Taylor? Do you have parents of either or anything? You mention a marriage information. Do you have marriage info with a date of marriage for them? Only you know if these Thomas people might be the ones you are looking for. I can only report what I find about people with the same name and locations etc. David Thomas was the father. He was b. before 1800. Greenbrier book says he married an Elizabeth possibly. His son was David Anderson Thomas [1817-1904]. Greenbrier Book says he married Amanda Dyches. [1818-1884] This David Anderson would have been about the right age to have married in the era of 1840. I do notice that this David had a son named David Richard Thomas [1845]. No wife is given in the Greenbrier book. It is possible that this David Richard Thomas who is mentioned as marrying Mary Ellen Collison/Callison was the same one that is being discussed in the Greenbrier book. Where was the information found, Melinda that you have about Mary Ellen and David Richard Thomas? If the Greenbrier book is accurate about the date of death of Amanda Dyches as being 1884, I doubt very much if David A. Thomas would have married someone else in the 1840's. Which brings us full circle to the possibility that Taylor was a maiden name and Dyches was a previously married name or something. That is all assuming that we are talking about the same David Anderson. It was Melinda who offered the information about the David Anderson who married a Sally Taylor. I would be interested in finding out who the SIBLINGS were for the David R. Thomas who married Mary Ellen Callison/Collison. That should give us an idea of whether the two David R. Thomas's and David Anderson Thomases might be the same. The coincidence of having the same children in David Anderson Thomas, and Amanda's families compared to your records for your David A. Thomas, seems too much to take lightly, I think. But I will keep an open mind. As for Solomon....I think I typed too fast again, if I said he was the son of David Anderson Thomas. Solomon was the brother of David Anderson Thomas . No date is given for his birth, or spouse. But his siblings were b. around 1818-1828 or there abouts. [According to the Greenbrier Heritage Book] We also have a marriage CD. Will make a report of Thomas marriages and send it to the list, in case it might help anyone in sorting this out. Joyce in Ca. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3231 http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/r/m/Joyce-C-Armstrongcooper/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~carvgs/rgs.htm Main names I am researching, VINCENT, TAYLOR, BRUNS,LIVESAY,ELLIS,MCCLUNG,JOPLING, COOPER, and many more, too numerous to post....