Sherry Graves:  

Currently, I am living in El Segundo, CA with my husband, Nathan (retired Air Force) and our two children, Tasha and Nate Jr., who are both attending Santa Monica College. I work in San Pedro at Dana MS in the Special Education Office. Such perks as: vacation days, mentoring kids, and the fantastic people I work with keep me there. I love researching my family and have started a website online. That research has led me to Oklahoma to my Creek, and Chickasaw Freedmen Roots and Northeastern Louisiana searching for the MORRIS & WAX families in Claiborne and Morehouse Parishes. My family research has also led me to two plantations and a slave owner in Arkansas. I am now back home (Cali) where I am finding out that I may be related to quite a few people there, including fellow classmates from Edison High School in Fresno,CA. I recently contacted relatives all over the United States for our Pauley Family Reunion held in Arkansas July 10-12 2009. The next scheduled Reunion is in Tulsa OK in July 2011. My Cousin Linda who also was my teacher at Edison High School also attended the Reunion and had an exciting road trip afterwards, meeting Former President Bill Clinton at his Presidential Library in ...Expand for more