I have hit a brick wall and could sure use some suggestions from some Marion Co. "experts." I have searched for my great-grandmother Sarah Mayo Evans in Bexar, Marion Co. with no success. I have a copy of her marriage certificate - says she was from Marion Co. and she married George Washington Burnett of Spartanburg SC. in Bexar in 1872. No other (good) information is on that certificate.

They moved to Monroe Co. MS by the time my grandfather was born in 1890. Sarah died in 1905 and was buried in New Prospect Cemetery in Aberdeen, MS.

I'm still trying to find her and her family in Marion Co. AL. I've searched through land records and tried to match those up with census records to find an Evans child her age - or any of her siblings. She was born in 1852 and married in 1872 - yet she and her siblings are not on the 1860 or 1870 Marion Co. census.

Old notes from a relative states that her sister Lou Evans never married but had the plantation after the parents died (or moved away or whatever).

Help! Where else can I look? I know that Lamar Co was part of Marion Co at one time - I've looked there too. But the old notes of my relative states that they were in Bexar - which I THINK was always Marion Co. - at least during Sarah's life time.

I welcome any suggestions for other places to search!
Marlene

Siblings in no particular order (nicknames as known by my relative):
1-Sam
2-Billy
3-Jack (had daughters Zula and Johnnie)
4-Callie (married a Martin)
5-Lou (never married)
6-Sealie (had a child named Dovie)
7-Annie (moved to OK when she married)
8-Jennie (I have since learned that real name was Susan Jane who married William "Billy" Robinson; children - Dutch, Hiter, Ed, Elmer, Jessie, Bessie)
9-Tom (half-brother)
10-? (half-sister)