This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ryan, Burford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gBB.2ACI/2984 Message Board Post: Looking for the children of David & Martha Ryan. David & Martha appear on the 1850 census for Mercer Co, KY. Both 62 and born in VA. I'm thinking this David is the one referred to as a minor in the will of John Ryan circa 1798-99? My gg-grandfather Adam Henry Ryan was born somewhere in KY, July 1819. He later was living in Knox Co, Illinois but went to Mercer Co Ky in 1848 to deal with a court matter concerning his military pension. Believe he went to that part of Ky because he had family there. David & Martha are of the right age to be his parents and born in VA as Adam stated on later census records.