This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: joycecollins Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.knox/9325.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, This morning I tried to trace out your Britton/Britt/Brit JOHNSON. When I looked at his death certificate, my reading of it is that he was buried somewhere in the area called "Flat Lick" but not necessarily in a cemetery called Flat Lick. It is difficult to read but appears to me he was born in Grainger Co., TN. Ancestry.com has it listed as "George" but I think that is an error. What is further interesting and just a coincidence is that as of the 1910 census he shows up in "Knox Co.", TENNESSEE : Dwelling 45-45 JOHNSON, Brit, 58, b. TN (which equates out to a birth year of 1852) . .Nancy, 52, wife, b. TN . .Dennis, 8, grandson Then going backwards to the 1880 Knox Co., TENNESSEE Fed. census: Dwelling 318-354 JOHNSON, Britton, 24, b. TN . .Mary L., 21, b. TN . .James E., 10 months, b. TN McDANIEL, Sarah A., 15, "sister-in-law" When he died of kidney disease in Knox Co., KY in 1932, he age is shown as around 68 years which equates out to: 1864 Then to make things further confusing in 1880 in Harlan Co., KY (not all that far from Knox Co., KY): Dwelling 39-39 JOHNSON, Britton, 34, b. KY . .Barbary, 32, b. KY . .James, 14, b. KY . .Carline, 10, b. KY . . Robert, 8, b. KY . .Lucy, 4, b. KY . .Feriba, 1, b. KY Then later on as of the 1930 Fed. census and still in Harlan Co., KY Dwelling 117-122 BALL, Isom, 26 . .Ida, wife, and several children and a brother, Frank, is the widow, Brit JOHNSON, age 76 (equates to1854) b. now in TN; parents b. NC Really interesting how he came to be in Knox Co., KY. Usually when they were older they would have followed some of their sons and their families to some new place. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA 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.