Espy - Steagall Connection

- Ted Thomas, e-mail to Hank Holman

So I am trying to figure out a potential connection to Major Espy. The closest I can find right now is Mary Francis Reynolds (1896-1989), who is the daughter of Laura Reynolds nee Steagall (1877-1951) and Dr John L. Reynolds (1870-1936).  She married Thomas Marion Espy, Jr (1895-1918), and later married Samuel Yancey Carroll (1890-1961).  Laura Reynolds nee Steagall is a sister to your grandfather.

Mr Thomas Marion Espy, Jr, KIA in WWI, was the son of Thomas Marion Espy, Sr and Anna Clark Farmer. See the attached JPG of the family tree.

I suspect both Thomas Marion Espy and Samuel Yancey Carroll are both closely connected to the families of Major Espy and Major Espy's grandfather, Major Carroll.

Besides the family tree JPG, I am attaching three articles on the Espy family and the Carroll family as references.