This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/2082.1 Message Board Post: Thanks to a kind Indianan, I learned David, age 54 was back in Michigan by the 1850 census, with his wife Martha, age 53, son William age 20, daughter Minerva age 16, and son David age 14. My ggfather, William left the next year for Ilinois, married in 1853, and came to California. You Indianans rule!