BROKEN-OFF FAMILY REUNION

BROKEN OFF FAMILY CONNECTION NOW RECOGNIZED  How awesome it is to discover a lost branch of one's very large family on Facebook! Our families were joined together in Alabama and Mississippi, until at least 1878. For a marriage license bearing the year has been found online by Paul V. Nash, Jr., which I now repost!  Yesterday by reason of a post that I wrote on "Aunt Sooter," Dedove Merriweather, my mother's people, another family representative of a lost, distant family responded with proofs that were so incontrovertible that we both were saying "Amen!" Cousin Birdie Tynes, our second cousin, Edward Merriweather's beautiful and brilliant daughter, during our chat, made reference to a family reunion of some kind that she had attended in Canton, Mississippi, in 2017, at which Ms. BG Woodard of Chicago--our broken-off, "Anderson" family relative--had said she that she had breakfasted with cousin Edward and others several times.  The most recent proof is this picture of a 19th century relative that she posted yesterday. What I was too overwhelmed to then say that this same photo had been circulated some years ago by Paul V. Nash, Jr., my second cousin and our Merriweather family genealogy expert . He has posted a family tree with thousands of names covering the Nash and Merriweather sides of his family. He had sought to see if anyone knew the story identity of this man. No one did. Then, BG Woodard, from the lost-found Anderson branch of our family posted the same photo asking the same question: "Who is this man?" I must say that the ruddy man pictured here also strongly resembles a lawyer from Canton, who now lives in Monroe , Louisiana, where he practices law, James West. I made friends with him over the past twenty-five years attending various legal conventions.