This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wV.2ADI/1501 Message Board Post: There was a Jno. (John) Epps on the 1840 Burke Co. NC census, page 48, south side of the Catawba River. 0122001-0010001 from later censuses, I know that his wife's name was Elizabeth In the house beside him was Watkins, Jno (probably John also) 00001-no females Might be a coincidence, but it sounds like your names. Another possibility, on the 1830 Cocke Co.TN census, p. 243 Job, Winney 0-0 Williams, John 0-0 Epps, George 0-0 Lucas, Seliah 0-0 0-0 means non-white, could be free blacks, Indians, mixed bloods or Melungeons