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/SNE.2ACIB/1222.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, I haven't found a CJ in my Blackburns yet... doesn't mean that there isn't one. :) I did find Leroy and his first wife on the 1850 census recently. They were in Walker co. Ga in Chattanooga Valley. Leroy D. Blackburn 33 farmer b.VA Picty? 33 b.TN Andrew 3 b.GA Margaret P. 2 b.GA Leroy G. 7months b.GA I have also found a John W. Blackburn and his wife Eunice Viola in Abilene, Taylor, TX in 1920. I wonder if your Eunice is named for her. Here is their listing: John W. Blackburn m, w, m, 48 b.TN f.TN m.TN barber Eunice Viola f, w, m, 38 b.TX f.TN m.TX Earl A. m, w, s, 19 b.TX f.TN m.TX Spence m, w, s, 14 b.TX f.TN m.TX Johnnie C. f, w, s, 11 b.TX f.TN m.TX I have found Johnnie in 1930, she's married to a Robert R. McClsky? and they have a daughter named Dorothy L. John and Eunice are both buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Abilene. You can look up their info here: http://city.abilenetx.com/cemeteryview/OccupantLookup.asp Hope that might help you, or someone else. :) Stacey