To Linda--did you have any success with my Thomas Jefferson Gordon in the census. We found Lucretia Bushnell in the 1860 Rapids Parish census, and I thank you for that. They married about 1865-66(no record, but 1st. childs' baptism recorded in Church Point, LA Ch. records, in 1867). At that time, I believe the area was St. Landry Parish. He had to be somewhere in 1860!!! Thank you for your help. Ethel.