This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3kz.2ACIB/1016.1 Message Board Post: Death record information regarding the name of a deceased person's mother would have to have come from the memory of a relative or close friend, and this should not be accepted as the truth unless there's other evidence to support it. With the name spelled Axa, Axie and Axy in the census, the name was quite likely Achsah, a not uncommon name for a woman born in the early 1800's. Doing a search for the first name only at the WorldConnect Project, or a search for Achsah, Axy and Axie in the 1880 census transcription at the LDS web site will show how common the name was. It's a name from the Bible: Joshua 15:16,17.