I've been in search for my great grandfathers dad for a while now. My great 
grandfather's name was Jesse Samuel Williams, His mother was Maude "Moddie" 
Williams which I have been able to locate information and pictures of. But I 
have got stuck in search of his father "John Summerlin", Moddie and Summerlin 
never married and had 3 children together from what I have been able to find 
out. 
Moddie had another child but from what I'm finding out the father of that
child carried the last name of Frost as he come thru the area with work when 
they met. They were tennant farmers in the Glisson area and looks as though 
they stayed pretty close to that area so maybe someone has this information. 

I've done some research with the 1900 Census and Maude and Jesse Samuel lived 
together then and there was a Summerlin family that was there neighbor but wasn't 
able to find a John on that one. 

I took that Summerlin family and went back to the 1880 and 1870 Census and the
same family on both of them have a John listed so I'm thinking I might be on 
the right track with it  but am running out of information on it. Looks as 
though his birthdate would be around 1870 give or take a year and I have no 
idea of when he passed away. I have talked to people that said they knew the 
man so they knew he existed but I haven't been able to get past him on my 
tree. 

Any information please feel free to Email me or if I can send the information 
I have to someone that might be able to use it in there search for Mr. Summerlin.


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