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/CBB.2ACE/5022.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Your Ellis Rose is listed with a Hammons family in 1900 in Whitley Co, KY, Woodbine Precinct, ED 138, Sheet 23... as a hired hand. This record states that he was then 19 and that he was born in Aug, 1880... which explains why he was not in the 1880 census. If you are sure that he was born in Knox Co. I guess your best bet is to look for a young childless couple by the name of Rose or a growing Rose family there that had a child about 2 years... as Ellis may have been ready to appear there very shortly... and focus your search on that family. Elaine