<mickey43>   

Anna Wayne Brothers Saffels lives in Attalla..she taught at Etowah HS and Aaron Saffels principal at Ivalee School and Ivalee Baptist Church..his line from Geraldine, AL on Sand Mtn

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JTM,  my mother is Flora Brasher Smith of Vandiver, AL in Shelby Co near Vincent and Pell City

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BRASHER_WHITFIELD-STOKES-DAVIS-ISBELL of Shelby, St Clair,  Jefferson and few in Etowah and Marshall Co AL

<JTM>   

Don't know any of those names. There is a Nance family on h'wy 9 in Calhoun County

<mickey43>   

Don’t recognize Turley,  my first cousin Fred Whitfield of Gadsden play pro baseball for Cleveland and Cincinnati in 70s

<JTM>   

You are definitely not going to believe this!! My cousins Lindy & Leonard Brasher married sisters,  Beatrice & Dorothy Smith

<mickey43>   

My grandfather was William Earlie (Mollie) Brasher and Roxie Whitfield of Vandiver

<mickey43>   

Our Col. James Alfred Smith came from VA to Jackson Co AL and to Coosa Co AL

<mickey43>   

Do you have any Brasher Relative in Shelby Co?

<mickey43>   

The Rev. Brasher at Brahers Chapel was Pres of Snead State College in Boaz many yrs ago

<JTM>   

I have a partial family history on the Brasher family. My Dad's 2 oldest sisters married Brasher brothers,  Samuel Harvey & Marlin

<mickey43>   

I think my Mom's Brashers of Shelby Co were related to my first wife's Brothers-Galloway-Brashers of St Clair, Etowah,  and Marshall Counties AL

<mickey43>   

My line is Brasher-Whitfield-Stokes-Turner-Davis-Weldon-Isbell-Grizzle and Kirkpatrick of Shelby, St Clair,  Jefferson counties area of Vandiver, Vincent, sterrett, Pell City and Birmingham

<JTM>   

I don't recognize any of them. I will ask my cousin,  Fay Brasher Thisler if she knows any of them. She is also working on all our trees.

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Mom's half brother LeRoy Brasher was pastor of Cherry St. Church of God and Assoc missionary was killed in a car wreck in B'ham his church was in Talladega, AL

<JTM>   

My line is Turley,  Nix,  Richards,  Wade,  Miller,  Moore,  Chastain & Thornell. Most are from GA or SC.

<mickey43>   

My only line that might connect on my line is the Miller family....any related to Bridges family of Coosa, Talladega, Clay, Tallapoosa Counties of central AL?

<JTM>   

I've been working on trying to get info from relations who are still living & I have several cousins (from different family lines) working on the earlier info.

<mickey43>   

JTM,  I think you may have more lines that connect to Dalton Nix's family

<JTM>   

relations translates to Relations

<mickey43>   

Dalton Nix also knows Chief Justice Roy Moore of Gallant and Gadsden AL

<JTM>   

Is Dalton your son-in-law?

<JTM>   

I don't think Judge Moore is in our tree,  but who knows?