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/IMJ.2ACEB/1769 Message Board Post: Cannot find date of immigration, nor his parents' names. He first appears in Bedford County, VA on the 1850 tax list. He married Louisa Hammond in Bedford County, VA in 1854, where he lived until his death in 1889. They had 15 children, not all survived childhood/infancy. Louisa Hammond was born in Page County, VA ca. 1832, daughter of Lewis Dowe Hammond and Mary Dare. Lewis Hammond was born near Baltimore, MD ca. 1800.