I can give you info on James Allen Gaar.
The Gaar family was one side of my mother's families.
James Allen Gaar died in Ruston, Lincoln, LA and I have the obit from local papers.
If you receive this, please answer via my own e-mail:
franed@bayou.comThen give me yours also and we can skip going thru
Ancestry.com. ED Edwards, Ruston, LA