This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tompkins, Wilborn, Morgan, Faris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EBB.2ACE/2585.1 Message Board Post: Updates: Have received several emails with feedback about this article. Carol Wyatt, a Storm and Morgan descendant with many indirect ties to the Tompkins, writes and makes an excellent point about Charles Storm Tompkins: “I remember when someone brought up the name Charles Storm Thompkins and Andrew or Andy I said to myself, those are Storm names. Not Charles in particular but the fact that Storm was the middle name and Andrew was a Storm name too.” I agree it’s an interesting question. Why was Charles was given the middle name Storm, was he related somehow to the Isaac Storm family, who married into and lived next door to our Tompkins clan? In digging a bit further, we find that the Storms also spent some time in Carter county Tennessee, making a possible connection to the Wilborns or Tompkins, if Eli is truly connected to the Benjamin and Polly Hampton Tompkins line. Was Elizabeth related to the Storms? Was Charles named after relatives or good family friends? Sally Federer, connected to Reece Ellis Tompkins, seems to have found proof that indeed Elizabeth Wilborn did marry Dudley Faris, revealing that it is Elizabeth and Burnetta Tompkins residing with Dudley in 1860. Elizabeth then went by Tompkins later on. Here is that census: July 20, 1860, Laurel county Kentucky, Page 102 Dudley Farris m 60 ky farm laborer Elizabeth Farris f 55 ky Viva Farris f 11 ky Bernetty Farris f 18 ky Sally writes: The "Laurel County Kentucky Marriage Index 1826-1937" shows a marriage between Dudley Faris and M.E. Thompkins 29 Feb 1859. IF "M.E." is Eli's ex-wife the initials probably stand for Malinda Elizabeth, like her daughter. But, what IF they stood for Martha Elizabeth? That might explain "Martha Betty/Beatty.” Perhaps at some point in her life some family member referred to her as "Martha Betty"... I wrote to Laurel County for the marriage record of Dudley Faris and M.E. Tompkins... Did you notice that the date was 29 Feb 1859? 1859 was not a leap year so there was not a Feb 29th.” Carol Wyatt also points out: “When Daniel Morgan married to Celia McFarlin in 1871 (yes 1871 I know they are listed in the 1870 census together) he listed in Elizabeth Thompkins house. When Sarah Thompkins married Wombles, she the dau. of Malinda, who is dau of Elizabeth and Eli married in 1871, she too married in the house of Elizabeth Thompkins. So, she was still called Thompkins in 1871. “ Maxine Morgan, a descendant of Nancy Tompkins Morgan, writes: “I am sure in the back of my mind I once had a note about Andy Tompkins and Eli Morgan going to Arkansas together and preparing place to move their families, and then going back to move their families, in 1868, I believe -- Franklin Co. Ark. Wonder if his mother would have moved with them?”