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/EEX.2ACIB/808.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry Jim But my Forbes came from new york and as far as i know he was not in tenn or ms. My abraham died in dewittville new york in april 1838 and is burried some where up there, have not found anything on him. His son Smith Edwin Forbes b. nov. 1835. His first name of smith came from his mother's father. Smith A. Brown from Warren co, ny My g grandfather came to Ill in 1855, and died there. Sorry I can't help you.