This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TmQ.2ACIB/395.443.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Jim - We've corresponded before I'm pretty sure. Yes, these Curtis's are the same as mine. Josiah and John Wesley are the sons of Joel D. Curtis, and wife Margaret Jewell. The major differences here are Benjamin's DOB. I have him being born c.a. 1798. The Sheffield you mention was William Sheffield and I think his wife was Nancy??? On the 1870 Arkansas census, Benjamin's widow, Sarah?? is found living with this same Sheffield family in Pope County, Arkansas. I never could quite understand this, since Sarah had adult children in the same vicinity. Obviously Sarah is connected to this Sheffield's somehow. Bob Merrill. silverchief@cox.net.