At 03:32 PM 11/3/00 EST, you wrote: >James Belcher Lawrence County Ky: >In the 1850 scanned images of Lawrence County Kentucky : >Andrew James Belcher age 32 laborer born in Virginia: >wife: Nancy age 22 >daughter: Martha age 3 >son: James age 1 >===================================== >no other Belchers are listed in the 1850 Lawrence County census: >===================================== >in the 1860 Census : is only an index list: >James Belcher is mentioned and no other Belchers: >no ages or anything listed in this census: >==================================== >are you sure the wife was Margaret and dau nancy: >could it have been the other way around?? >Gayl Ramey Wells >u.s.a.=genealogy site: >http://www.angelfire.com/la2/gen/index.html I also have death records for Strauther, who died at age twelve of "FLUX", & Jane, who died at age two of "whooping cough". Parents are listed as "James & Margaret BELCHER". Other children born to them: Martha, Nancy, my GGGrmother, Lyddia, who married James H. MARCUM, Elizabeth, James & Eliza A., all listed in household 267 of the 1850 census of Wayne Co., VA (WV). The James you mention is not mine, The 1850 Census, Wayne County, Virginia (West Virginia) 267 BELCHER ELIZA A. 1 267 BELCHER ELIZABETH 5 267 BELCHER JAMES 32 267 BELCHER JAMES 2 267 BELCHER LYDDIA 8 267 BELCHER MARGARETT 32 267 BELCHER MARTHA J. 11 267 BELCHER NANCY 7 267 BELCHER STRAUTHER 4 Ck Morehouse