I got a lot of the Sorrells information from a book called "Fare thee well old Joe Clark, The Clark family of Rockbridge County" by Donna Huffer. It was in that book that I found where Bessie Virginia Sorrells, was his mother, instead of Mary Josephine, who was his grandmother. My line is through Olive "Ollie" Sorrels who married a Tyree. Ollie also had a child before she married and her parents raised her as their own.
My mom was a foster child, and only a few years ago, I found her biological mother, who ended up having 6 children but raised none of them. So I know what you mean. Mom summed it up really well that we have our children but an adopted child is chosen.