I am researching a BRAY family line that hopefully will link up to other people's family lines at some point. My wifes ggrandfather, Columbus N. BRAY, was born in 1856 in MO. I had an 1870 record of him with a family of what I thought was his mother, Ann, and possibly a sister, Matilda, and a brother, Jefferson. After a painstaking search through the 1860 Census records, using logical choices and a little luck, I found the following family for him in Fallings Springs, Ozark County, MO: B.B.(?) BRAY 41 MW Farmer Avarilla 38 FW Mary E. 18 FW Henry 18 MW Peater(?) 13 MW Louiza(?) 11 FW Thomas(?) 8 MW Matilda 6 FW Columbus 3 MW The names here are somewhat unusual, as I have only seen a few named Avarilla, and only one or two named Peater. Avarill through Louiza in the list were born in TN, the rest of the kids were born in MO. B.B. BRAY was born in KY. Also, I also found in an unrelated biography that someone's ancestor was described as living in "Falling Springs, Douglas County, MO" I got curious as to when Ozark County came into existence, and found that Ozark was formed from Taney County in 1841, and Douglas split off from Ozark in 1857. Falling SPrings, MO, according to the Post Office, is in Miller County, a couple hundred miles to the north. What Gives? If anyone has any info to share on this, please respond here or e-mail me directly at [email protected]