This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HINDS-MATTIX-BOND-EPPLER-AUTRY-STEWARD-RUDY-BASHAM-LEDFORD-LEWIS-BUCKMAN-MARLAR-KELLOG-DOWNEN-HOWARD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EKj.2ACIB/361 Message Board Post: Hi: I haven't sent this in a long time so am trying again to find a descendant of John Hinds and David HInds who died in Van Buren, Crawford Co. AR 1838 & 1843. Surnames mentioned in the message below: HINDS-MATTIX-BOND-EPPLER-AUTRY-STEWARD-RUDY-BASHAM-LEDFORD-LEWIS-BUCKMAN-MARLAR-KELLOG-DOWNEN-HOWARD I can trace this line back to Morris Co. NJ, then Guilford Co. NC, then TN, then Wayne Co. KY, then Lawrence Co. AR when it was Lousiana Territory. In Lawrence Co. AR David (b. 3 Feb. 1803 KY), son of a John Hinds (b. 1775/77 prob. NC) marries in 1827 Margret Ann Mattix, dau. of Edward Mattix (NC) and Elizabeth Bond (TN). By 1836, both father and son have moved to Crawford Co. AR. John dies in 1838 leaving his wife, Esther and son, David as co-administrators. By 1840, Esther is living alone in Crawford Co. AR with her slaves. And, a John Hinds lives right down the road. A brother of David? David is also in the same area but not next door. In 1842, In Crawford Co., David has his mother removed as administrator because of her marriage to a Jonathan Eppler. In Dec. of 1843, David has passed away and the court names Jonathan and Esther Eppler, Margaret Ann Hinds & John Hinds of KYas heirs at law of David. (Who is this John of KY? The same that lived down in road in 1840 census? May be a brother who moved back to be with cousins in KY?) In the 1850 Crawford Co. census, four of the children (Edward, John, Eliz. & Archie) are living with grandmother, Esther (?)Hinds Eppler, who has evidently become a widow again. Margret Ann has re-married, birthing a child's of David's after his death and has married to a Dr. John Autry. The youngest two girls live with her. These are the children of David and Margret Ann Hinds: Esther Hinds born 29 Jan 1829, probably AR, married Alexander Steward & d. before 1850 census Edward Hinds b. 25 Feb 1831, AR married Catharine "Kate" Rudy. They died in Tulare, CA John Hinds b. 5 Mar 1833, AR - no info if married Elizabeth Hinds b. 31 Aug 1835,AR married John M. Basham and a Mr. Ledford. I have some of their descendants. Archibald Yell Hinds, b. 8 Nov 1837, Crawford Co. AR marr. Sarah Eliz. Lewis in Ca, then after her death married my great-grandmother, Sarah Earsley Buckman. They lived in Tulare Co. CA. This is my line. Cynthia Jane Hinds, b. 3 Mar 1840 married Wm. E. Marlar and had a daughter, Kate Marlar, who married a Kellogg, and whose grandchildren grew up in Merced, CA area. Mary R. Hinds, b. 28 Jan 1844, AR after her father's death married a Robt Downen, had a child, Maude Downen, who married a Euvelle Howard and lived near Clear Lake, CA. The story is that the children of David Hinds, deceased, did not get along with their step-father, Dr. Autry and so two of them headed to CA. Edward with Archibald (who tradition says at age 15 with his freed black friend Wiley Hinds followed his brother Edward's wagon train until it was too late to make him turn back) came to CA from Van Buren, AR in 1851, via Texas and Ft. Yuma, AZ in a Van Buren, AR wagon train that had just five wagons. Their two sisters, Cynthia and Mary with husbands also traveled and settled in CA but I don't know when they arrived altho Mary is living with her brother Edward & wife in CA when she is about 17.. Any info about these families is vastly appreciated. Nan Wolf E-Mail:71532.734 at compuserve.com