This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4R.2ADE/986 Message Board Post: Does anyone have information that might match this gentleman or run across him in your research? Handy C. Wood b. abt 1804 NC (this is NOT the Handy Wood that married Julia Jane Cook and remained in Orange/Alamance Co., NC) By 1840 census he is Conecuh Co. AL and marries Nancy (Calhoun?) 1843, date and maiden name unverified. This may have been a second marriage for Handy as he has children born between 1834 and 1843. The date may have been a transposition, too. Handy and Nancy are in Ouachita later Nevada County, AR by abt 1847. Three of their children married in Clark Co. Handy may have had siblings named William or Washington, perhaps William Washington. There is a head of household on the 1840 census in Conecuh Co. by each name. I believe his father may be the William listed. There is in that household male and female of the right age to be his parents and only one residence, that of Dugal Calhoun, is between him and Handy. This could also be a sibling's household in which the parents and younger siblings are resident. Hard to tell from the 1840, eh? Washington is only a few doors removed and the right age to be a sibling. None is on the 1850 Conecuh Co. census, but a William Wood and his family with wife and first several children born in AL is in Ouachita Co AR in 1850, having arrived about the same time as Handy and Nancy given the dates of their children's births in AR. Several of their children bear the same names. Handy's children include: Nancy Jane Henry C. Handy C. William W. John G. Thomas Jefferson (my great grandfather) b 1851, AR Eli James Anderson or Andrew Eliza? Name not verified and unreadable on one census George Mary Ann Here's hoping we can knock down some walls today. Many thanks in advance. Susan.