Mike, You might try checking the following web site for the Civil War records: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm A search shows G. H. Farmer and S. A. Farmer in the 39th Mississippi Infantry (I assume this is your George and Seaborn). It also shows a Daniel Farmer and a Samuel Farmer in the 12th Mississippi Infantry. Good luck with your search. Hub Broughton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ALMONROE-L] Samuel A. Farmer in Monroe County 1850-1858 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/HU.2ADI/1604 Message Board Post: I am looking for the parentage of Samuel A. Farmer born 1825-1830 in Georgia/Alabama. He is listed on the 1850 Monroe County, Alabama census (twice) with his wife Mary Ann Wright and brothers, George and Seaborn (and possibly his remarried mother Mary Chancellor?). Mary Ann Wright was born in Old Texas, Monroe County, Alabama about 1830 to Daniel Wright and Ellender/Elanor Godbold. Samuel patented land in Monroe County, Alabama three times between 1850 and 1858. I have found a record where "S.A. Farmer Minister of the Gospel" performed a wedding in Monroe County, Alabama and another record where Samuel paid taxes in beat eleven. Then by 1860 he had moved his family, including his brothers, to Covington County, Mississippi where he had several children listed in his household. By 1867 he had died and his wife Mary Ann had remarried to William B. Gray and they had a child, Cynthia. In 1870, Samuel's children and his remarried widow can be found on the 1870 Simpson Count! y, Mississippi. Of the four records that include Samuel's place of birth, two say he was born in Alabama and two say Georgia and the dates of birth vary from 1825 to 1830. A search for his possible Civil War enlistment, and death therein, has turned up fruitless. His brothers, George and Seaborn both enlisted in the 39th Miss Infantry Co. A where Seaborn was killed in action in 1864 at Franklin, Tennessee. George survived the war and lived to have many descendants. Samuel is not listed in any available "home guard" troops for Simpson County, Mississippi. Samuel seems to have vanished between 1860 and 1866. A check of available Covington County and Simpson County, Mississippi cemetery listings has turned up nothing as well. Any help would be appreciated. Mike ==== ALMONROE Mailing List ==== ****"We shall find no ancestor before his time." "To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root." - Chinese Proverb Monroe County, ALGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~almonroe Listowner Carolyn Golowka at [email protected]