Ellen Byrne wrote: > Perhaps Tom King can tell us why he thought Martin was > the son of Martin Breedlove, other than the name, of course. I don't believe I ever said that Martin had a son Martin. I just checked back through 240 archive Breedlove messages and another 385 that I haven't archived and the only comments I've made about Martin is that I do not believe he is the one that died in Boone County, Missouri. That was referring to Martin Breedlove who married Elizabeth Carr. The Martin son of Thomas & Sarah Broaddus Breedlove, must have died sometime after 1840 in Simpson County, KY where the records were destroyed in a fire in 1884. The Martin who died in Boone County, MO is the son of Broaddus Breedlove. Martin may have had a son Martin but I rather doubt it. The messages that had that came from Carole. My belief is that Martin had two other sons MILTON and Nathan (Nathan is listed in everyone's list) that are living close to each other on the Wright Co., MO 1850 census, the 1860 Linn CO., KS census and the 1870 Ozark Co., MO census. Milton was born 17 Mar 1814 in KY and married Margaret Ann Roper, Nathan was born 1817 KY and married Druscilla Smith in 1846 in Lawrence Co., MO. Tom