This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lawrence Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DAw.2ACIB/1111.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for my great grandmother's family but have no idea of their names. I know that her name was Tennessee Katinka Lawrence b. 1869 in Graves, KY, she married William Herman Venable in 1889 in Johnson County, IL. I have searched the census but can't find a Tennessee Lawrence born around 1869 in Mayfield, Graves Co, KY. I have found a Lawrence family for 1870 and 1880 but no Tennie, however, 1880 there is a Gilbert family a few houses down that has a little girl living in the house named Tennessee listed as other than direct relative. Tennie always said that her family were murdered and that her mother was raped during the ordeal and had her at a young age. How factual or details of such events are unknown. I have found where there was a connection between the Gilberts and the Lawrences around Mayfield back then. I also saw the post talking about Ada Gilbert who married a Lawrence. After they were married Tennie and Herman named their daughter Ada, she died as! a small child in Johnson CO, IL and is buried there near Tunnel Hill. I can't find any mention of Tennie as a child in any of the census and am trying to find out why. Her Obit said she was born and raised and always missed her childhood home in Mayfield KY though there is no records of her in the census that I can find. I was told by a relative recently that it is believed that her mother's name could have been Nancy Jane Lawrence also from Mayfield area and that her grandmother's name was possibly Elizabeth, but I can't seem to find much information on them. Also the name Tom Hall was the name that Tennie always gave as her father to family. Any help in finding any of Tennie's family back then is greatly appreciated. Sharon Blanchard