This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOLLAND, MERRILL, DUNN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RS.2ADI/1460 Message Board Post: My grt-grt-grt-grandparents Susanna (McDADE) and William MERRILL were divorced in 1849, and she then married David HOLLAND and had one child. This family appears in census records: 1850 Covington Co. David HOLLAND 30 SC Susannah 40 GA Thomas 01 AL 1860 Covington Co. David HOLLAND 40 SC Susanah 50 GA Thomas E. J. 11 AL 1870 Covington Co. #123: James HOLLAND 54 SC Elisabeth 44 AL Maryann 27 AL Sarah 16 AL George 14 AL Jacob 11 AL David 02 AL #124 George McNEIL 21 AL Sarah Ann 25 AL Susanna 01 AL Thomas HOLLAND 21 AL 1880 Crenshaw Co. T. J. HOLLAND 32 AL SC SC M. F. 24 AL GA GA J. D. 09 AL AL AL (struck thru--noted as "dead") J. L. 04 AL AL AL 1900 Covington Co. Thomas J. HOLLAND Jan 1849 51 AL SC AL (m. 30 yrs) Luzilla? Jan 1849 51 GA GA SC (5 kids/2 living) wife Joseph L. July 1875 24 AL AL GA son 1910 Covington Co. J. L. HOLLAND 35 AL AL AL Belle 22 AL AL AL wife William 11/12 AL AL AL son 1920 Covington Co. Joseph A? HOLLAND 46 AL AL AL Mrs. Belle 31 AL AL AL wife William D. 10 AL AL AL son 1930 Covington Co. Lon? HOLLAND 55 AL AL AL (m. at 32) Belle 41 AL AL AL (m. at 18) wife Elizabeth DUNN 69 AL SC SC (mo.-in-law) William HOLLAND 20 AL AL AL (m. at 19) Katie Lou? 22 AL AL AL (m. at 21) Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, Covington Co., AL: Joseph L. HOLLAND 1875-1961 Nora B. HOLLAND 1888-1975 William D. HOLLAND 18 July 1909--26 June 1942 Katie L. HOLLAND 22 Dec 1907 Is the Thomas HOLLAND in 1870 living next door to James HOLLAND (b. ca 1816 SC) the same Thomas who was with David HOLLAND (b. ca 1820 SC) and wife Susannah in 1850 and 1860? Are there any living descendants of Thomas's son Joseph L. HOLLAND (1875-1961), through his son William D. HOLLAND (1909-1942)? I am looking for any information I can find about this HOLLAND family! --Ron Head (Montgomery, AL)