This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS, TAYLOR, JACKSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CBB.2ACE/3835.3850.3850 Message Board Post: Hello, Their marriage record shows as follows from Marr. Bond Book N dated January 31, 1896, Page 248 First marriages for both at James CALEB's JACKSON, Franklin, age 21, b. Knox Co.; father: J. L. JACKSON to: MILLS, Easter, age 16, b. Knox Co.; father: Alec MILLS; mother: Elizabeth MILLS On the 1880 Knox Co., here is the Franklin JACKSON family: Dwelling 80-80 JACKSON, John L., 40, husband, b. TN; father b. Va; mother B. TN . Susan, 37, wife, b. TN; parents b. TN . Mary, 17, at home, dau, TN . Wm. J., 15, farms, son, TN . Rufus M., 13, farms, son, TN . Geo. M., 12, farms, son, KY . Emma, 9, dau, KY . Godfrey F., 6, son, KY * * *(Frank/Franklin) . Caladona, 9 mos, dau, KY From there it gets 'tricky' because the only Elec/Alex MILLS there is listed on the 1880 Knox (with the exception of a Black Male, age 6 named Alexander) is this one: Dwelling 379-381 MILLS, Alexander, 26, husband, b. KY; parents b. KY . Abby, 26, wife, b. KY; parents b. KY (this is Abigail BARGO) . Henry, 8, son, KY . Nancy, 6, dau, KY . Daniel, 5, son, KY . Jabe, 3, son, KY . Anthony, 2, son, KY . Easter, 3 mo's, dau, b. KY * * *(one possibility) On the 1870 Knox Co., Alexander is listed as 20 years old and Abby BARGO is 18 years and they have one son, Henry, 4 mo's old. Alexander MILLS is said to be the son of Clark "Big Clark" MILLS and Sarah TAYLOR (dau. of Cornelius A. and Sarah Ann WALKER TAYLOR). Others say the mother was Margaret TAYLOR. Sarah TAYLOR is still living as of the 1850 Knox Co. Fed. Census. Then Alexander was born in 1850 and she died within a very short period of time, presumably that year and at the time of his birth. The following year I believe it was, Clark "Big Clark" MILLS married Sarah's younger sister, Margaret TAYLOR and began another family. The only other Alexander/Alex/Elec MILLS I know of for that time period was the son of Harrison MILLS, son of Sarah TAYLOR and Clark "Big Clark" MILLS. That particular Alexander MILLS was not born until 1860 and would have been in Clay Co. Abigail also had a sister, Elizabeth and Alexander was either married or had children with more than one person. He was killed at a public meeting in 1887. It is at this point things get a bit murky. I would welcome any knowledge anyone has of what the true situation was regarding Easter MILLS. On the 1900 Knox, here is: Dwelling 255-258 JACKSON, Frank, husband, b. 5-1876, 24, mar. 5 yrs, b. KY; parents b. TN . Easter, wife, b. 10-1878, 21, mar. 5 yrs, 3 born; 2 living, b. KY; parents b. KY . Hobart, son, b. 2-1897, 3, KY . George, son, b. 12-1899, 5 mo's, b. KY Frank or Godfrey F. is living next dwelling to his parents, John L. and Susan M. JACKSON. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA