Steve, Yes, he could have been born in the part of NC that became Tn. What he (or his wife) told the census taker is anybody's guess. I find the birth places changing from one census to the next. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: <SSpunk@aol.com> To: <ILSALINE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 11:10 PM Subject: [ILSALINE-L] Re: garbled etc > Thanks, just wasn't sure it was just me. Thot I was gonna have ta get me > eyeballs checked again !! > For some added notes: I no longer consider Edmund Baker (1776) 's m2 to be > Elizabeth RICE. I have DROPPED the RICE and I no longer consider her to be a > RICE. (Unless someone can find it in writing of course). It came to me that > the only reason she was considered to be a RICE was the fact that she was > seemingly the only way that Edmund could have been buried in the RICE > Cemetary. Since I have come to the reasoning that the RICE Cemetary was > ORIGINALLY BAKER land, she was probably buried in the cemetary while it was > STILL Baker land. IE at the time she died, it would really have been the > BAKER Cemetary and not RICE. There were at least 3 other BAKER's buried there > before her & the first buried there was a Baker. nuff said on that matter fer > now ! lol. > Another question keeps rising in my mind (ALSO a VERY SCARY THING !!) > IF someone was born in NC in 1776, could they REALLY have been born in what > was later TENNESSEE ? IF so then what was the state of birth usually > considered to be ?? ie could my Edmund have been born in a part of NC that > later became Tenn > and then still stated he was born in NC/SC ? > I've always had trouble with moving boundries !! > thanks, steve sspunk@aol.com > > "My mind is so big, that when my boat sinks inside it, I drown" >