This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IM0.2ACEB/426 Message Board Post: Looking for the following family: 1) J. M Meador b. abt 1819, NC, father b. NC, mother b. SC m. to Elizabeth A., b. abt 1827 in Alabama, father b. SC, mother b. ? (poss Louisiana)--married at least by abt 1850, somewhere in Alabama 1851 to 1861, but by 1869 in Mississippi, in 1880 in Newton County, MS census. Children Martha J. (b. abt 1851, AL), Mary T (b. abt 1860, AL), Hugh A (b. abt 1861, AL), Lucy B (b. abt 1869, MS), and Alana (?) V. (b. abt 1871 MS) Next generation (believe to be son of J. M. and Elizabeth, but not positive): B. F. Meador b. abt 1843, Alabama, m. Mary J. b. abt 1850 MS of father b. NC, mother b. SC, married no later than 1865, living in Mississippi, in 1880, in Newton County, MS census Children, all b. MS: Wm A (b. abt 1865), Benjamin F or L (b. abt 1867), John M (b. abt 1871), Richard (b. abt 1874), Sarah P (b. abt 1876) and Margaret A (below) (b. abt 1879) next generation: Margaret A. Meador b. 1889 MS, married Arthur Collins Butts in 1898/9, on 1900 Newton County MS census Any info would be welcome. If you would like an actual transcription of the census data I have found so far, will be glad to share. Thanks, Karen Dutton [email protected]