My great-great grandfather
Rev. Adolphe Stagg in the Civil War
 
My great-great grandfather, Rev. Adolphe Stagg (b. Dec. 17, 1834; died Apr. 17, 1914). He married Ultima Caratine (and later Cordelia Pevy). He was a pioneer Baptist preacher to the French speaking people of Louisiana. He was the father of Mary Stagg Hanks who married Nathan Hanks; they were the parents of Nina Hanks who married Robert S. Lawson. They were the parents of my mother Ruth Lawson who married my father Julian Willis.