Barbara, FWIW, I have the Dec 1859 date also. It is listed that way in the 1900 Census. However, I realize that the census dates are often very wrong, so her actual dob could have easily been in 1858. My only point in the earlier post was that a census taker was not likely to place twins (abt 1 or 2 years old) as born about 1 year apart. I see from this morning's post that Sharon has Malissa's dob as 1958 from her headstone. Unless someone finds a birth record somewhere, we'll probably never be absolutely sure in which year she was born. But I guess the evidence is pretty good that she and Starkus were not twins. And BTW Sharon, the new millennium doesn't start for nearly a year <g>. Barbara Hill wrote: > > Sharon, > > As a follow-up to Charlie's census record, I can only offer the following, > and I have no idea where I got it. > > I have Starkus as being born "abt. 1858" and Melissa as being born > "December 1859." There would probably thus be enough time for them to have > been born separately instead of as twins. > > But yes, your dad may well have said something about twins in the Hoffpauir > family, because my step-grandfather Samuel Rufus ("Roy") Hoffpauir was a > twin to Susan Ruth Hoffpauir (who married a Methodist minister by the last > name of George). S.R. and Susan Ruth were your dad's aunt and uncle, > right? Also, from my experience with other families, it does seem like > twins "run in families." Any other Hoffpauir twins out there? > > Barbara Hill > <bhill@uclink4.berkeley.edu> > > At 02:14 AM 1/1/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Hello again, > > I have a question. My records show that Francis Hoffpauir and his sister > >Amilda married their cousins Malissa and Starkus Hoffpauir. Malissa and > >Starkus were also siblings. My question is this....were Malissa and Starkus > >also twins? My records show they were both born in 1858. Now, I realize that > >this doesn't necessarily mean they were twins, but they might be and I > recall > >my dad saying something about twins and his mother's family. Does anyone > have > >any info on this? > > > >Happy New Millennium, > >Sharon Dulcich > > -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://web.wt.net/~charlieh/