Kathy, Joseph of 1850, 1860 and 1870 is not the same Joseph on the 1816 Clay Co KY tax list. He would, as I said, have been only about 10 or 11 yrs of age at that time. There was a 2nd Joseph in the area, and he was much older. He is the one who never showed on a census there, He was only on the tax lists for the one year. And everywhere we've tracked John recently, there is also Joseph. A very reasonable deduction that they were related. As we all know, families tended to band together back then. Joyce

Yes its clear there were several Joseph One same age or older as John of Ky and he is the one thats always close to John in NC/Va the other one is son of Martin then again the other side of the line had "Joseph,s also" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce H. Reeves" <JoyceHouseReeve@webtv.net> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [COUCH] Martin Couch KY Line > Kathy, > Joseph of 1850, 1860 and 1870 is not the same Joseph on the 1816 Clay > Co KY tax list. He would, as I said, have been only about 10 or 11 yrs > of age at that time. There was a 2nd Joseph in the area, and he was > much older. He is the one who never showed on a census there, He was > only on the tax lists for the one year. And everywhere we've tracked > John recently, there is also Joseph. A very reasonable deduction that > they were related. As we all know, families tended to band together > back then. > Joyce > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >