Hi. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, but I have access problems. At the Block family house in Washington, Arkansas, we dug a trash deposit dating early 1840s that included some fish including suckers and catfish. Not a whole lot of fish, to be sure. The species list and other details were published in Historical Archy in 1989 in an article by Barbara Ruff and I. The title is "A Good Man in Israel...", and was looking mostly at faunal material and ethnicity, e.g., catfish are definitely not Kosher but the Blocks definitely were Jews. I don't have a detailed reference to the article here at home with me, and I fear that if I wait til I get to the office to reply, it might be another 2 weeks before I can get into email again. Good luck. Leslie C. Stewart-Abernathy Arkansas Archeological Survey Arkansas Tech University Russellville, AR