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/He.2ADE/584.1 Message Board Post: Katie, I was going to e-mail you directly and then decided to post here so if anyone else has a lead they can get in touch with us. I spent the last two weeks in GA with my Aunt Vicki, who has been doing research on her family for about the last 40 years. We found the census page from the 1860 Wilkinson County census and came to the conclusion that the 15 year old male is not named Bazemore as it was originally transcribed, but is actually named Bozeman or something similar. It's highly likely that he is the 18 year old soldier B.M. Busby that died as a prisoner of war just after the battle of Kennesaw mountain. That young man was the right age, has the right initials and enlisted in the right county to be Dennis' son. We looked at the ages of Dennis and the kids living at home and it's safe to conclude that those were the three youngest kids, and there are very much more than likely other children that we will find when we finally figure out where the heck Dennis was i! n 1850. I have looked through the following county's 1850 census images and excluded Dennis from all of them: Pulaski, Wilkinson, Tripp, Bleckley, Bibb, and Houston. I did, however, in both 1840 and 1850 find three Busby men living very close to each other and they are all the right age to be siblings of Dennis. Vicki tells me that it's very likely that Dennis bought the property there in 1836 not for himself but for a mother, or siblings or even children that did not have the means to purchase it. I'm going through the 1840 census of Perry Co. Alabama to see if he was living there at the time, because of the marriage record to Susannah Ran, however with the naming conventions of the time, and the youngest child at home being named Bozeman we have an ENOURMOUS clue as to the identity of Dennis' first or even second wife, or at least the mother of that child. It's HIGHLY likely that either the mother has the maiden name of Bozeman, or that the maternal grandmother had th! e maiden name of Bozeman. We'll find him yet! That's all I have for now! Hugs and stuff, Valleri