This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BLACKBURN, CLEMONS/CLEMMONS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SNE.2ACIB/871.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Jamie, I don't have anything on this Benj. F. Blackburn but my gggrandfather was also Benj. Franklin Blackburn, b. ca. 1798 in KY & married Mary Hartley in Nicholas Co. KY in 1819. The Hartleys had previously lived in Harrison Co. Benj. & Mary were in Monroe Co. IN in 1830, 1840, & 1850, then in Brown Co. IN in 1860. I can't locate the parents after 1860 but I have a fairly good record of their children & their families. They had a grandson named Benj. Taylor. One of Benj. & Mary's daughters (Hannah) married David Clemons Jackson in Monroe Co. in 1844. I know very little of his background other than he was born in IN. I suspect that his mother could have been named Clemons/Clemmons due to his middle name. He was orphaned at about age 2 & I haven't been able to learn anything of his early years.You may contact me directly at my e-mail address.