Hey Jackie.....been chasing the mystery kid on the sheet you sent me way back. Well, it seems like way back to me! Anyhow....I figured out that the Thomas Smith that was living with my Great Great Grand Daddy and Mama Jessie and Mary Dees in 1850 was probably a kid out of wedlock and his name was changed to Thomas Dees by the time the 1860 Census was taken (age 17)... the part "of out wedlock" is an assumption that could go foul. The discovery is that he is listed on the actual 1870 paper as Indian, 27 years old, his wife as White, two kids Indian and another older kid as Black. On the typed summary sheet it has the whole bunch as Black. He and his family lived next door to my Great Great Grand Mother Mary Dees, Jessie's wife. And, on the same sheet about three or four houses before theirs is a Timothy that I never heard of that is listed as Black and came from Virginia. I can't make out the first name....something like Mite? I'm hunting my Grand Daddy Thomas Timothy's dad in this quagmire at the same time! (He is listed as Indian in the 1880 Census.) That's that one. Now, two, Millard: On the Thomas H. Deese (Dees) that you had as listed as 3/4 Indian, who later was listed in a later Census as marrying a 17 year old Indian, and had a 42 year old son listed as an Indian, has the birth year that fits with my Great Great Grand Daddy Jessie Dees' 1830 Monroe Census for the brother of my Great Grand Daddy Martin Dees that has been missing. So any other records you have on any of these that I can beg, borrow, buy, or be gifted with, I would appreciate it...and thanks. Hope that makes sense to me tomorrow. Yep.......we are Creek! TT