Okay fellow listers, I can't stand it any longer! I've been through hundreds, no - thousands of census records and my aunt on the other side of the country has done the same. I read this list faithfully and monitor the Love message boards. Why can't I find this family in the 1860 and 1870 Census? I have tried all of the variations that I can think of that handwriting could be inpreted as. Sooooooooooooooo, I am resorting to begging. Please keep your eyes open for this family when you are looking for your own Loves in the 1860 and 1870. James is the son of Thomas Love of Rockbridge Co. VA who relocated to Meigs Co. OH, dies and is buried there. James born in OH in 1812. Married 1837 to Eliza Smith b.1822. They resided in Meigs County until late 40's and then went to Wetzel Co. VA. I believe their oldest son was Thomas but he was not with them in 1850 Census, Wetzel Co. VA, when their family consisted of James Love, age 38, Eliza, age 28, Harriet 9, Jane (Frances) 7, William 5, Elizabeth 3, Clark 3/12. They must have moved back to Ohio prior to 1857 when my grandmother, Mary Ellen Love was born in Great Bend, Meigs Co. OH and her sister Minerva born in OH in 1862, but I can find no record of the family from 1850 until 1880 when Eliza is a widow in Meigs Co. and Mary Ellen and Minerva living with unrelated families as servants. Where oh where were they hiding? I can see them being missed in one of the Census years but not in both. So please, please, please, be on the lookout for this family. In all of my time on this list, I have not found any one else who is related and I have not been able to find James and Eliza by researching Mary Ellen's siblings. Frances Jane married William Garrison and lived in Franklin County OH and New York. William married and moved to Maryland. Mary Ellen married Joel Anderson and moved around WV and Minerva married David Barnett and moved to Pittsburgh PA. If anyone can shed some light on those missing years, my family and I will be forever greatful. Kathleen Meeker Belmont County, OH