This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pAB.2ACI/4565.1.2 Message Board Post: To anyone who is on this line - there is clear documentation on Elijah Smith's War of 1812 papers that Mary was indeed a Tackett. Also the papers show that Mary was born earlier than 1790, but evidently didn't know her birthdate (probably because she was illiterate).