I will accept that Jennie made a rare transcription error. I could understand many people subtracting years from their OWN dob, but not intentionally for others so long ago. I wonder how many mysteries may be explained by this potential error source. The INTENTIONAL misleading another about ones age!!!! I shall propose this to be a "vanity error" because many folks are vain about their age and will fudge occasionally. if this happened when the enumerator came to visit, then the dates would be different than their mothers gave years before... Just a thought Jenny should remember that in Broxton, we were admonished by our parents to never ask a lady her age. That was unforgivable. Remember the lady at the drugstore who made a career of keeping her age a closely guarded secret? But she made the worlds best hotdog with pimento cheese. Bet Sam Roberts could remember this trivia... tom b atkinson also tomjax@yahoo.com