Hello Ann In partial answer to your puzzles: I have looked very carefully at the original 1880 census and that name is not Blarney but Bloomey which sounds exactly like Blumy, so if nobody spelled it for the census taker [who was W.P. Ivey] he probably wrote it like he heard it. The child is listed as a son age 5. There is also an Elias E. Miller age 29 brother of James M. living in the household Agnes Cloninger On 10/31/03 3:00 PM, "CATAWBA-WEST-D-request@rootsweb.com" <CATAWBA-WEST-D-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: Ann Propst, Brevard, NC Question-where was Mary Jane's and James Monroe's son, Blumy W. Miller in 1880? Is he the Blorney W. Miller, age 5, listed on page 80 in 1880 Catawba Co. census in James M. and Catherine, along with a brother of James Monroe, Elias E. "Eli" Miller?