I am looking for Wheatons, all sizes, colors and shapes. Joe (1833/36), John (1835), Henry (1838) and Monday (1840) Wheaton report on the 1880 Madison County, Texas Census that they were born in Arkansas, their father in Arkansas and their mother in Louisiana. I've searched the length and breadth of Arkansas with no documented hint of their existence in Arkansas. Oral history states the brothers were 1/2 Indian and African. Further, it is stated they were never slaves. Based on the 1867 Texas Voter Registration, they migrated to Texas in 1848. We speculate that their father may have been a runaway slave who escaped to Indian Territory; maybe even changed his name to avoid detection. Needless to say, no African was named Wheaton so the name was picked up from somewhere. The other Wheatons I am interested in are George and Henry Wheaton who ended up in Homer, Louisiana after the Civil War. George and Henry (we don't know a date of birth, but Henry died in Hope, AR circa 1934/35 purportedly at the age of 103) were also born around the 1830s but they came directly from Africa after being tricked onto a slave ship and were sold into slavery to "Old Man Wheaton" in Louisiana. Old Man Wheaton never had children with "Old Lady Wheaton" because she was barren. Old Man Wheaton, however, purportedly fathered many children with numerous slaves on his plantation somewhere in Louisiana. Thus, oral history is predominantly what I have to go on and I've hit a dead end trying to track my Wheatons or possibly establish a connection between the Louisiana Wheatons and the Arkansas Wheatons. Any help I can get will be much appreciated. Helen Ross Ignorance is only bliss to those who would not see - it is a voluntary misfortune - and if ignorance is in fact bliss, why are there so many unhappy people? --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs, a Yahoo! service - Search Thousands of New Jobs