Michael, Yes, thank you, I have also found the 2 Ezekiel Busby's you mentioned. I have been able to determine that the 2 Ezekiels in Mississippi are not mine. But the possibility of being cousins shouldn't be written out. How old was the Ezekiel Sr. on the 1850 Census of MS? Do you have any information on his ancestry? Maybe by taking another angle, I will stumble across my Ezekiel in another family... Sincerely, Jodi