This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: AMES, LEE, BENNETT, GRIFFIN, LLOYD, WORSHAM, GATES, HAYDEN, KENDELL, TIDD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BRD.2ACEB/4579 Message Board Post: Since my GGGrandfather has such an unusual name, I thought that you may find him in your files. I found him on the 1880 census in Calhoun County, Mississippi, living with his daughter, Betty and son-in-law Jessie Griffin. It lists his wife's name as Jane, and he was born in 1814 in Kentucky. Please email me if you have any information on this family. My email is: audrey@fidnet.com Thanks!! Descendants of Mordicy Bennett Generation No. 1 1. MORDICY1 BENNETT was born 1814 in Kentucky. He married JANE. She was born 1826 in Alabama. Children of MORDICY BENNETT and JANE are: i. ELLA2 BENNETT, b. 1845. 2. ii. BETTY LINDA WADE ELIZABETH BENNETT, b. 1846, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; d. Florence, Alabama. iii. HENRYETTA BENNETT, b. 1858. iv. WILLIAM BENNETT, b. 1863. Generation No. 2 2. BETTY LINDA WADE ELIZABETH2 BENNETT (MORDICY1) was born 1846 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and died in Florence, Alabama. She married JESSIE WASHINGTON GRIFFIN. He was born 1845 in Alabama, and died Bet. 1907 - 1908. Children of BETTY BENNETT and JESSIE GRIFFIN are: i. MORDICY3 GRIFFIN. ii. PORTER GRIFFIN. iii. MATTIE EVELYN GRIFFIN, b. November 26, 1875, Calhoun County, Mississippi; d. November 30, 1954, Los Angeles, California1; m. AMERICUS D. LAFAYETTE LEE, July 04, 1900, Pontotoc County, Mississippi2; b. March 25, 1848, Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi3,4,5; d. August 30, 1927, Blue Springs, Union County, Mississippi (Buried in Benthal Cemetery, Pontotoc County6. iv. VIRGINIA GRIFFIN, b. October 11, 1877; m. JAMES WALTER PHILLIPS.