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/iMB.2ACI/980.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Sandra! The following might help you. I have not yet ordered the land deed films for this county, but suspect they might hold a few clues to our puzzle. Here are the Land Patents from the BLM site for Taylors in Cole CO: TAYLOR land grants in Cole Co. All at Fayette Land Office. Name Date AliquotParts Sec./Block Township Range ANNA 11/10/1841 19517 MO2860__.289 NENW 15/ 43-N 13-W ANNA 11/10/1841 19518 MO2860__.290 SWSW 10/ 43-N 13-W HUBBARD 5/10/1848 24668 MO2970__.001 SENE 25/ 45-N 14-W JOHNSON 1/10/1840 14499 MO2760__.111 NENE 5/ 45-N 13-W MARTIN 1/10/1840 12588 MO2720__.315 NESW 5/ 45-N 13-W MARTIN 1/10/40 14826 MO2760__.421 NENE 15/ 45-N 13-W MARTIN* 5/1/1849 27277 MO3020__.174 SWSE 14/ 45-N 14-W *w/ ELIAS BARCROFT& JOHN K HILL NATHAN 11/14/1835 6838 MO0540__.313 SENE 5/ 45-N 13-W PERRY 1/10/1840 12529 MO2720__.260 SESW 5/ 45-N 13-W THOMAS H 10/1/1835 7131 MO0550__.108 SESW 3/ 43-N 13-W THOMAS H 1/10/1840 13619 MO2740__.284 W½NW 11/ 43-N 13-W THOMAS H 4/1/1843 22884 MO2930__.141 SWSW 2/ 43-N 13-W THOMAS H 5/1/1854 30663 MO3080__.272 SENW 10/ 43-N 13-W & also SESE 10/ 43-N 13-W THOMAS H 1/15/1856 32336 MO3110__.259 N½SE 9/ 43-N 13-W THOMAS H 1/15/1856 33224 MO3120__.342 SWSE 10/ 43-N 13-W Side NOTE: If you'll study the dates, you'll see that the earliest Taylor to buy land in Cole Co. was Thomas H. Taylor, whose first land purchase from the federal government was finalized on 1 Oct 1835. He is on the 1850>1870 census' of Cole Co. and was born in TN. Thomas and Anna seem to be in the same area The land of Nathan, Perry, Martin, and Johnson Taylor seem to 'cluster' together as though those men might be related. And it is that group of Taylors who married into the Murray family.