Charlie, Hello Cousin! Thank you for the offer to "bring me up to speed" on your line descended from Benjamin & Susannah. Reba HOLMES BROWN had precious little on your line. I do not know why. BTW: Reba's lineage is as follows (briefly) ("Y" stands for Youngblood) Benjamin Y m: Susannah COLLINS > Henry Y m: Sarah M. HARVEY >John Pearl Y m: Matilda Elias NORWOOD > Nonie Carrie Y m: David Johnson HOLMES > Reba Laura HOLMES (b:30 Aug. 1900) You write, "I am also a descendant of Joseph and Susanna, through John A. McLeod who married Susanna Youngblood Dec 15 1841 in Caddo Parish, dau of Henry Youngblood and Sarah Harvey." From which of Susannah Y. and John McCLEOD's children do you descend; Kate, Norman, or Angus? As I said, Reba has very little in her book on your line, but there is an interesting note from her mother. It reads, "And -- Genie Pearl (Y) Hart, oldest child of John Pearl & Matilda Elias (NORWOOD) Y, owned a hotel in Crystal City, TX during the 1930s and 40's, and she said that a McLeod boy visited her and her husband there. He was a descendant of Aunt Susannah (Y) McLeod." Regards. Joyce Zachman, Sugar Land, TX