GREEN T BLURB FOR POSTS I'm searching for ascendants of my grandmother, Maude Blanche HANCOCK who was born and married into the WOOD family in Bates Co, MO. I found her father, but I'm having trouble getting beyond her father, Green Theodore or Theodore Green HANCOCK b.abt 1846/47, Platte Co, MO, moved to Bates Co, MO around 10 or 11 years old, d.1934, Bates Co, MO. I understand that the Butler, MO courthouse was burned during the civil war, and records are few. He is in the later censuses, with part of his family. I found Green's birth in Platte Co, MO, with a Mosier HANCOCK as his father. No other place have I found Mosier. Checking rootsweb for Mosier gave me only "sound-alike" of Major. But I found no connection of a Major to Green, and found no connection of a Theodore to Green. Green's father was supposedly born in MO, and his father in turn, in TN. So I checked the censuses, and this is what I found: 1870 US Census: M T HANCOCK 50 (b. 1820) Male White B. MO State MO Co. Bates Location Pleasant Gap (This may be Mosier or Major Theodore Hancock, possible father of Green Theodore Hancock. Green T. was not in this list of children (Martha 19, John 17, Mary 15, David 11; Green would be about 23-24 at time of this Census). The birth date and place are good to be Green's father. Also, in family stories there is mention of Theodore as his father. A newspaper clipping mentions his father as being Maj. Theodore Hancock. Someone in the family said Green had been a confederate soldier during the civil war, and that he had "pulled" a wounded Billy Kemper off a battle field; that he had fought at the battle of Pilot Knob (also called battle of Ft. Davidson); and that his travels during that war led him all the way to Texas. I did find confirmation that he was in the confederate army during the civil war, having signed up in a county near Bates, MO. He married 1878, Bates Co, MO, a widow with two small children. Her name was Lucina/Lucinda Poindexter, b. 1847-1857-Bradley Co, TN, d. 1895, probably Bates Co, MO. I have also seen her listed as Louisa. She was a widow of William DeSpain, having married William 1873, in either Bradley Co, TN, or Webster Co, MO. (There are in the Fed. Censuses, several listings of a Theodore HANCOCK, b. Abt 1847, married to a Lucinda Mellon, living in MO. These are not the people I'm looking for.) My immediate questions are 1. Where did Green spend his youth; 2. who are his ascendants? I'm not sure where else to look. Any ideas? Thanks, J Wood __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com