Grant, It sounds very plausible to me that the Shadrick Dykes, age 28, born in GA, married to Eliza, age 25 and also born in GA, is the son of Nathaniel and Temperance Jeter Dykes. Nathaniel, born in 1792 was the older brother of my Shadrick Dikes/Dykes who married Elizabeth Reeder. It would be very reasonable for Nathaniel to name one of his sons after his brother. This is what I will assume until proven otherwise. I've been trying to figure out why my Nancy Jane Dykes, daughter of Shadrick and Elizabeth, was listed in the HH of Samuel Wilkerson/Wilkinson in the 1860 Barbour County census. Now I think I may have figured it out, they were all relatives and I think it goes like this: Nathaniel Dykes (brother of Shadrick) was married to Temperance Jeter and they had a child named Elizabeth "Betsy" Dykes (Betsy would be my Nancy's 1st cousin). "Betsy" married Asa Wilkinson who had a brother named Samuel Wilkinson (who married Elmira Tew). Now, I think my Nancy just happened to be at Samuel and Elmira's house when the census taker came around in 1860, wouldn't be the first time that children were not counted in their own home but were counted in the home of other relatives and/or friends. I have another family in my line where the children were counted twice, once at home and once at their grandparent's house. Anybody else out there think I may be right? (or wrong?) Shelby -----Original Message----- From: GWJCAL@aol.com [mailto:GWJCAL@aol.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 6:22 PM To: ALBARBOU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALBARBOU] SHADE DYKES 1850 In a message dated 4/2/01 1:36:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, shelby_corcoran@coxtarget.com writes: > > 1850 Barbour County, AL census: > Dykes, Shade, age 28, born GA > Eliza, age 25, born GA > William, age 4, born AL > Mary, age 2, born AL > Sarah, age 4/12, born AL > (As you can see, this Shade Dykes and wife Eliza were both born in GA) > Nathaniel DYKES and his wife Temperance were probably in Barbour or Dale Co. by 1827. They had 2 unnamed sons born between 1815 -- 1820 and 2 other unnamed sons born between 1820 -- 1825. The information is from a source I know is reliable and I think it is based on an 1830 or 1840 census. As you know, those census records did not have names or ages of children. They were listed as "Number of males between 0 and 10" or "Number of males between 11 and 20" Shade age 28 born GA fits. Nathaniel DYKES may have been in GA about 1822. I think Nathaniel DYKES was in SC until about 1815 then moved into GA. Stewart Co. GA is oneplace to look. Seems like a lot of Barbour families were there first. However, proximity is not proof. Nathaniel could be on a list of War of 1812 land grants or some other record. I'm not actively researching DYKES but Nathaniel's daughter married Asa WILKINSON. Then Asa and Betsy had a son named David and a grandson named David Nathaniel WILKINSON. Grant "If I had it to do over again I would." ==== ALBARBOU Mailing List ==== ".... people will forget what you said ... .... people will forget what you did ... .... but people will never forget how you made them feel ..."