This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buck, Grinstead Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VYG.2ACIB/1536.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Unfortunately, I have already done what you have suggested concerning Ebenezer Buck and have turned up nothing. In fact the ONLY census record that I have for Ebenezer is the 1840 Clark Co., IN record, nothing before and nothing after. Clark Co. adjoins Jennings Co. where my grt-grt-grt grandmother Eliza Buck married Richard Grinstead on 13 Oct 1844 (I have a copy of the marriage record, but no mention of her father's name). I have no definitive proof that Ebenezer is her father, but he is the only Buck found anywhere near Jennings Co. in the 1840 IN census, and that Ebenezer Buck lived just a few families down from an older brother and an uncle of Richard Grinstead. In the late 1840s, Eliza and Richard Grinstead moved to Davis Co., IA, but I have found no evidence that ANY Buck moved with them at the time or subsequently. In every Davis Co. census from 1850 to 1900, Eliza (Buck) Grinstead listed her birthplace as Ohio, and in the 1900 census she stated that both her father and mother were born in Vermont. The only other record I have for Ebenezer Buck is an 1832 Ohio land grant near Marietta in Washington Co. The only other possibility I see is that Eliza's father was named Daniel Buck. I found a Daniel 'Beck' in the 1840 Jennings Co., IN census living NEXT DOOR to Richard Grinstead's father. I haven't found a Daniel Beck in Ohio, IN, or IA before or after the 1840 census, so I thought it was possible that the census taker mispelled Buck as Beck. Does your database show a Daniel Buck (b. 1790-1800 in Vermont) who had a daughter named Eliza and who lived in Ohio at least during the 1820s before moving on to IN prior to 1840?