This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: williamlawson90 Surnames: Puckett, Burch, Lawson Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene/9758/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am trying to connect Richard Puckett and his wife Rebecca Cleaver, who died in Indiana about 1837, with the Richard Puckett and his wife Rececca Cleaver who were married in Patrick County, VA on 3 Mar 1830. Are these Pucketts the same people, and the parents of our Richard A. Puckett? Our ancestor was Richard A. Puckett, 1830-1896,and his wife was Matilda Lawson, 1835-1908. We are having no luck finding Richard A's parents with a certainty. The best clue is this phrase in a Heritage of Patrick County, VA, book; "His parents probably were Richard Puckett and Rebecca Cleaver." I find this couple married on 6 Mar 1830 in Patrick County, VA, Marriages. The same minister, Julius Terrell, shows up later in our family records. No other records can be found for Richard and Rebecca Cleaver here. No birth record for Richard A. can be found, only census records when he had his own family. Was he born somewhere else? I find a Richard Puckett and Rebecca Cleaver in Greene County, Indiana, in message boards, from people who say they are GGGchildren. My Richard should have had a son named Richard A.. The other one apparently didn't, but he had four girls. My Richard and Rebecca disappeared from the records between 1830 and 1840, in SW VA, the same time the other Richard and Rebecca showed up in Indiana and died there as did two of the four daughters in the same year, 1837. (Even if they are not the people I'm searching for, I would like to know how those four people died}. The surviving two daughters went to live with other families. This info came from a Burch family message board I found. The surviving daughters must be the ancestors of the folks writing to the message board. The daughters would be hard to trace because women have the habit of taking their groom's name. I need someone in Greene County, IN to search courthouse records for any info that can be found on their Richard Puckett and Rebecca Cleaver, including Richard's middle name,and on the children. Sons,daughters. from Bill Lawson In Rockingham County, NC Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.