This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phelps, Darnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RAB.2ACI/2370.2369.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Marilyn, I am researching my wife’s family, the Darnell family of Adair, Russell, and Taylor counties in Kentucky. She descends from Franklin A. Darnell to James Land Darnell to Luther Elbert Darnell and his wife, Stella Mae Hayes. She was the youngest of 10 children. Her older sisters knew the wife of James Land Darnell as Cytha (sometimes Sitha) Adeline Phelps, and census records from 1880, 1900, and 1910 appear to confirm. Census records for 1860 and 1870 identify a Sitha (Sytha) as the daughter of William Phelps. I noticed your message of 31 May 2002 identifying the descendents of Shadrach Phelps, and you listed Cyntha (Syntha) A. Phelps b. 1848 in Russell County as marrying James A. Darnell; my question is, are two persons the same as Cytha (Sytha) Adeline Phillips and James Land Darnell? Second question: The 1850 census for Russell County lists Franklin Darnel, age 39, with Adeline age 25, and the third person enumerated is Sintha Phelps. The 1860 census for Adair county lists Franklin Darnell, age 50, wife is Kissiah A., age 36, and they have 5 children, the oldest being James Land Darnell. In the 1870 census for Russell County, this family has Kissie A. Darnell as head of the household, with James L., age 19, and 7 other children. Is/was the wife of Franklin A. Darnell named Kissiah Adeline Phelps, and was Sintha Phelps her mother. A final question; could Kissiah Adeline (Phelps?) Darnell and Cytha (Sytha) Adeline (Phelps) Darnell be related. Finally, I do have information about the descendents of James Land Darnell and Cytha Adeline Phelps, and will be glad to share that information. Lewis Nall