What was amazing to me was how one piece of information can change everything and suddenly send you down a path you had never thought to look. I've always heard that genealogy is like a puzzle with many different pieces. As you talk with other people or research documents, you find more pieces to the puzzle. In this case, I found a key piece of the puzzle. I was looking through Ancestry.com for Lou Gene and in particular, I wanted to find the WW1 draft card for him. It seems that it didn't show up as Lou Gene but Lugene. Once I found that, I was able to find his exact birthday and location. When I went back through the census records, I found him (with a slightly butchered name Lieu G) as a child in the house of "Renza Hataway". In all my research, I've never seen a Renza Hataway. So I was rather surprised. As I thought about it more, I realized that Renza could be short for Lorenzo. When I did another search for Lorenzo, He showed up in the 1860 census for Pike County, Alabama. At the age of 5, he was living in the house of Daniel Hataway.

It seems that there is quite a bit of information on Daniel. Daniel was a Civil War Soldier who served with the 61st Infantry Regiment of Alabama. He also filed quite a few land grants with the state. The problem that I now have is that I can't link him to a family. I haven't been able to find his parents. According to the census records, he was born in North Carolina and his wife was born in South Carolina. That leads me to believe that he's related to the Hattaway's of North Carolina but which ones, I'm not sure. It also leads me to believe that he made the journey through South Carolina with the other Hattaway's (based on the fact that his wife was born in SC).

If anyone has information about Daniel Hataway, I would greatly appreciate it and the family that is requesting this would also appreciate it. Please contact me either through this website or the email address here. Thanks.