What's the connection???
1870 Limestone Co Tx census shows 14-year-old Samuel PARSONS living with and working for Thomas and Martha HOLDERFIELD.Next house from Holderfield was Elias MAYO. Family history intimates some connection between Parsons and Mayo families in Virginia.Sam Parsons came to Limestone County from Holly Springs, Mississippi with William Fletcher BRYAN and family.Both Wm. F. Bryan and Samuel Parsons were born in Kentucky. Bryan's wife, according to 1880 census, was a daughter of Elias Mayo.
How was Samuel Parsons related to Wm. Fletcher Bryan????
Were Thomas Holderfield, Elias Mayo and Sam Parsons related???