This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HY.2ADE/1748 Message Board Post: Issac A BLEDSOE and wife Mary, Listed on 1870 census in Tulare Co. CA. Children: Drury (7), Susan C. (5), Russell (3), Nancy J 3/12 (3 months). Further census show Drury-Susan and Nancy, Does anyone know what happened to this farmer and half of his family?? Issac b. 1839 in MO is son of Thomas Jefferson Bledsoe. Mary b. 1840 MO. Russell was born in Santa Clara Co. CA in 1867. All info appreciated. Was there an epidemic or flood in Tulare Co in the 1870's?? Diane Whipple <circusjunkie@comcast.net?>