This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Posey, Turner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DS.2ADE/1553.1.1 Message Board Post: John, First of all, thank you for trying to help me. Let me tell you how I am related to the Posey's . My grandmother was Ethel Lydia Posey (Frazier) born to Lydia Turner Posey and Joseph C. Posey. Both my grandmother and great grandmother died at a "very" young age. My grandmother Ethel was only 4 or 5 when her mother, (Lydia) died at 27or 28. Then my mother was only 9 when her mother (Ethel) died at 42. So my mother knows nothing about her people, except what I found. The family in the 1850 census could be them. Mary Posey states in the 1880 census that she was born in Tennessee. In the 1900 census I found Richard Posey with his family (new wife) in Sunflower County, MS. He states that his father was born in England and his mother was born in North Carolina, he also said he was 52 at the time. I could not find him in the 1910 census so I am assuming he either died or moved. His children, Joseph and George W. still lived in Sunflower County, Miss. Joseph died in 1930 and George W. died in 1920. But, I agree with you that it all depends on the census takers. I am having an exceptionally hard time finding out any info. on my grandmother's mother side, the Turner Family.