Mary Ellen was a small girl when General Sherman and the Union Army marched into Savannah. The bulk of the Army established camp in the area of the railyards. The Mannion family lived nearby as Timothy Mannion worked for the railroad. Mary Ellen's mother, like many others, was conscripted to cook and serve meals to the Union forces. Mary Ellen, said to have been a very cute child, accompanied her mother. She frequently told the story of encountering General Sherman who was apparently taken by her charm and he "stuffed the pockets of her dress with Union coins".

Vivian was a US Air Force civil servant in Fianance and Accounting. She worked at the Charleston SC Ordinance Depot before transfering to Guam in July 1949.

She meet and married Charles Phillips in 1953.

She would spend the rest of her life on Guam eventually becoming the Comptroller of Anderson Air Force Base.

When Marshall registered for the World War I draft in 1916, he was already an ROTC Student Officer at Ft. Sheridan, Illinois. He lived most of his adult life in Knoxville, TN and was an agent for the US Bureau of Internal Revenue which later became known as the Internal Revenue Service.

John joined the U.S. Navy at age 18. He was trained as a Naval Aviator in Pensacola, Florida and spent his career as a navigator in various types of aircraft. He and Mabel were often stationed in Pensacola as well as Norfolk, Virginia. In 1937 they were assigned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. They remained in Hawaii until November 1941, when they were reassigned to a new duty assignment just missing the bombing of Pearl Harbor by a few days.

John flew missions in the Pacific during World War II off aircraft carriers. Mabel retells a story that John told often about the end of World War II. On September 2, 1945 the battleship Missouri lay at anchor in Tokyo Bay ready to accept the japanese surrender. A few miles away, John and his squadron sat in their planes ready to launch should the japanese fail to surrender or try some trickery. This was how he remembered the end of the war.

John remained in the Navy after World War II. He rose to the rank of Chief Warrant Officer (CWO3) and retired in Pensacola Florida after 31 years of active duty service.

Jim is the World Record holder for the largest Bluefish ever caught.

Jim established this record January 30, 1972 when he caught a 31 pound, 12 ounce Blue that was 47 inches long. James was fishing with James E Simmons off Hatteras Inlet about a mile offshore. The catch was made shortly after noon as they were getting ready to call it a day.

This broke the old record, which had stood for almost 20 years, by 7 pounds, 9 ounces.

By 1930 Pauline had married Elijah Sweaney and had relocated to Washington DC where they rented a house, for the sum of $100 per month, just a few blocks from the White House where they took in boarders. Pauline listed her occupations as boarding house keeper while Elijah was unemployed. They were living at the same address in 1940, paying $85 per month in rent, and still running a boarding house. However, Pauline now listed her occupation as proprietor of a cafeteria whereas Elijah declared that he was disabled and unable to work. close

The Cahill family owned a house behind the old DeSoto Hotel in Savannah. The house was sold and became known as the Jim Williams house, later made famous in the novel "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil".

James lived most of his life in Huntsville, Texas. He was a timber contractor and it was said that the piney woods of east Texas were his first love. He also worked for a time as a car slalesman as well as working for the Texas Prision System. He served in the Army during WWII with the 539th Field Artillery Battalion.

He was the son of "Capt. Joe" Byrd, assistant warden of the Huntsville Walls Unit. Starting in 1936, Capt Joe became well known for his role as executioner during the days when inmates were executed by the electric chair known as "Old Sparky". His pictue hangs on the wall of the Texas Prison Museum and the caption reads in part "he was as tough as they come, but was loved for his compassion .... he died on the job".

James' son Jay Byrd also became a Huntsville Prison waden many years later and in an interview with the Houston Press in 1995 spoke of his Grandfather. "Captain Byrd was a big, intimidating man who had a love of flowers. Byrd says his grandfather took special pride in the restoration of the inmate graveyard, which would come to bear his name after his own death. It represnted him as a decent human being, says Byrd. He beleived people should be punished for what they did. But no matter what a person did on earth, he always beleived that we should give them the same respect as anyone else when they die".

James received a BS degree from Georgia Teachers College which is now Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. He later earned his Masters as well as several EDS's from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. In 1942 he was teaching English at Quitman High School in Quitman Georgia. Here he meet his wife Willie, who was also a teacher at Quitman High where she taught math and chemistry. She did her undergraduate work at Bessie Tift College in Forsyth, Georgia and her Masters from the University of Georgia. James served in the Army during World War II and was stationed at Fort McPherson in Atlanta.