This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MERIDA, MILLS, HAMMONS, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CBB.2ACE/5107.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Janie, You posted a new query vs. attaching to the string so I don't know if Anthony JONES will received notification or not. He will if he belongs to the Knox Co. Message Board. He and I have shared some interesting information which he had and some which I had with regard to Barren D. ALLEN. I'll forward some of this on to you. Something interesting he pointed out was that B. D. ALLEN married yet a 4th time (other wives dead per marriage cert.) to an Emeline MERIDA. Have you ever heard of her? She gives her age as 52 years, born in Knox Co., her 3rd marriage (other husbands dead). They married on april 27, 1914 in Knox Co. Also, I believe the first wife of B. D. ALLEN listed as Eliza Jane (nee HAMMONDS/HAMMONS) was the dau. of Elijah HAMMONDS and his wife, Nancy CROOK who married in Knox Co. By 1860 they are gone from Knox Co. but on the 1870 Orange Co., IN Fed. Census they reappear. She is listed as Jane HAMMONS there. On the 1850 Knox Co., she is a one year old Elizabeth. Elijah was the son of Obadiah HAMMONS. Anthony sent their marriage record to me. Another family I found in Orange Co., IN in 1870 was William COPE who is on the 1850 Knox Co. with wife, Mary or Polly (nee HAMMONS, dau. of Obediah). So also is Shadrach ALLEN, father of B. D. ALLEN with a wife and other siblings. found in Orange Co., IN as of 1870. Some of the MILLS were also there at that point. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA