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/5R.2ADI/1204.5 Message Board Post: Hi Christine, My name is Kim Williford. I really need your help. I am looking for a great-grandfather who had a father named Meade B. Williford who was a confederate soldier. Private was his rank. I found all the military info I could find on him. Here is what I need to know. 1. He married Elizabeth Moore in Nov. 15, 1845. The 1850's census doesn't show that they had children. Meade drafted into the confederate Army in N.C. in Jan. 9, 1863. I need to know when they had children. I also need to know if perhaps, Elizabeth died before he went into the army and for that reason. I also would like to try to tie him in with a man named M.M Williford, who is a Creek indian, and got his indian blood from a parent. Now, here is another clue. Meade's father, Meede H. Williford Sr. who married a woman named Penelope, but don't know her maiden last name. Perhaps she came for a creek tribe between North Carolina to Florida. The census doesn't say who her parents were nor where they came from. Here is another possibility. Could have Meade and Elizabeth divorced and Meade concieved a baby with a woman from the Creek tribe during his travels to Savannah, GA - Kingston, GA. I've also heard there were some Creeks in North Carolina as well and Meade and Elizabeth were born in Edgecombe, North Carolina. Thank you if you can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Kim Williford