Jeanne Taloa Hall spent her childhood, listening to her grandmother, Ora May Hall tell exciting stories about, their relatives the Garner, Newton, and Hall families and the good ole, days in Kansas and Missouri., After the death of her grandmother, Jeanne inherited an old trunk full, of letters and pictures and historical documents. This sparked her, interest in genealogy and family tree research. Through correspondence, over forty years she located hundreds of shoe string cousins who, probably shared these family histories with her., William Posey Garner the subject of this book was Jeanne's great, great, Grandmother's cousin.