This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BIRD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1291 Message Board Post: I am seeking information on James Bird, b: Dec 20, 1838 Guernsey County, Ohio, d: Aft 1893, probably in Jasper County, Missouri, his wife, Nancy E. (Smith) Bird, and their children, Julia A. Bird, b: @ 1869, and Joseph C. Bird, b: @ 1873. Joseph was the son of Joseph Bird and Sarah Ann (Roberts) Bird of Guernsey County, Ohio. James might have been married first, prior to 1867, to a Mary Hocking. It is unknonw how this marriage ended. 1870 US Federal Census places James, Nancy and their first child in Noble County, Ohio. Sometime after 1873, James moves his family. 1880 US Federal Census finds them living in District 55 of Preston in Jasper County, Missouri. From statements he made in affidavits concerning his brothers military pension, we know that in 1881 James is living in Jasper County, Missouri and is still there in 1889. And in 1893, James lived in Dublin, Missouri, one mile from Jasper, Jasper County, Missouri. Sometime after 1893, it is assumed that James dies, but this is not proven because Nancy is found in 1910 living in Nickerson City, Reno County, Kansas. It is desigmated that she is married even though there is no husband listed in the household at the time the census is taken. Julia and Joseph are no longer in the household, but there is another child, William H., age 28, which would have puthis birth date ar 1881 or 1882. Any information that you may have on this family and their descendants would be very appreciated.