This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jordan, Chapman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xc.2ADI/1203.1.1 Message Board Post: Ann, I sent away this AM to Jones County, GA for a copy of their marriage certificate, and hopefully it may say who the father and mother was of each party. If the 1880 census shows children living with the parents Williamson and Harriett, what are the names and ages? I believe that I have the names, but just to check. Am more interested in the parents of same, so that I can carry my research further up the family tree. At this point I am stopped, with no names to look for. When I stopped in the Pike County library in Troy, AL the other day, the lady brought me a book that had the info from "Papers of the Pike County Historical Society" and on Williamson Jordan (1889) it said "Williamson Jordan was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, February 14, 1805. His father (the guy I am searching for) soon after moved to Jones County (Georgia) where young Jordan grew to manhood and married Miss Harriett Chapman June 3, 1830 who is still living. In 1838 Mr. Jordan moved to Muscogee County, Georgia where he remained until 1860. (I found him in the 1850 Census in Muscogee County, GA and verified the folks that this was the person I was interested in). That year he came to Pike (Alabama) and settled near Fish Trap but the next year moved near Henderson where he now lives. He is the father of twelve children, five of whom are now living. Two of his sons gave their lives to the Southern cause, one at Atlanta, Georgia, and the other at Winchester, Virginia. Thirty-six grandchildren and ten great grand-children are his descendants. And it goes on about his general health and belief's. etc. Since he married in 1830, born in 1805, in Jones County is their such a thing as a 1810 or 1820 census that my list his father as head of household, with a son that would show his birth in 1805? Your thoughts? Norman K. Huppert Sr huppert@snowhill.com