Absolom Wade was my third great grandfather and his son James Thomas Wade, my second. James Thomas married Martha Ann Hopkins. There was another James T. Wade in Union Parish also, about ten years difference in their ages;I forget who was the older. The other James T.'s relationship to the previously named Wades is unknown. Descendants of the two haven't been able to figure it out yet. The second James T. married a Mixon, (can't recall off hand if it was Frances--will check my notes. All lived for a time in Union Parish. Absolom later died and buried in Winn Parish. His wife Melinda Kennedy Porter is buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Pineville, La. She was previously married to a McKee and a Macklin and had children from each marriage.