This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams/ Sutherland/Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CI.2ADEB/9208 Message Board Post: Looking for information on Pleasant Adams. His daughter Susan Adams Smith married Alexander C. Smith. She had a brother, named Pleasant Adams that lived in Gentry, Smith MO. in 1850. In the 1850 census Pleasant Adams is 31 years old. He was born about 1819. Susannah his sister was born in Clay MO. about 1832. 1850 Census reads: Pleasant Adams 31, Martha (Patsey) 28 TN. Son Wm. A. age 10, Isaac 5 and Martha age 2. Next door= Rebeka Adams (wife of Pleasant Sr.) with sons, John , Joseph R., and James . Sister, Louvinia age 16. Susan and Alexander lived in Gentry MO. in 1850, 1860, and moved to TX. for a couple of years and then to AR. in 1870, where they died. Susannah's oldest daughter was Elizabeth Annie Smith Crow and her oldest son's name was William Pleasant Smith. Susan's nephew : Isaac T. Adams is still living in Smith, Worth MO in 1880 with wife Louiza and children William Pleasant, Sarah J. ,Charles L., Henry D., Mary F., and Laura E. In the 1880 census Pleasant Ada! ms Jr. is Married to Patsey Adams and he is 63 years old. A farmer born in MO. father born KY and mother VA. I hope some of this information will connect me to some cousins out there.