I am a Florida native who is now living in a small town in northern CA. Would some kind person do a census index look up for me on Benjamin TIPTON (sometimes mistakenly spelled TIFTON) in 1860? I also can't find his sons, Chapman, Isaiah, and Jesse who were in their twenties. Benjamin was a Freewill Baptist minister who was in Wakulla Co, FL, minister of the Mt. Elon Baptist Church and in the tax digest in 1852, 1857 until 1859, but he isn't there in 1860. He moved throughout the GA/FL/ AL area. I find him in 1870 in Early Co, GA, but he isn't in GA for the 1860 census either. The above sons completely disappear; perhaps they died in the war. Another son, Jason enlisted in Ocala, FL. I can order the census films through our library, but I can't order the census index, and I don't know where to look. I am also interested in connecting with any other TIPTON researchers in FL. Wishing you all a great day. Mitzi Clark Bateman mitzi@cncnet.com