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/lMB.2ACI/1553.1556.1 Message Board Post: Jim, Sorry to bother you again about Charles Brannum, but I keep getting a few more leads... Today I was in contact with one of his other children's decendants.. He told me that Charles had a brother named Merrit and a brother named Tommy or Thomas. That the 3 of them were in the Hornerville area.. I found Merritt born about 1855 and in the 1870 census he is living with Tecumsah C. Brannuim and his wife Cecelia. He shows as their Nephew...so Charles would also be Tecumsah's nephew. I then found Merrit in the 1880 census living with Mott Brannum and his wife Margaret..both families in Clay twp... Merrett is listed as a cousin to Mott....So Charles and Mott were also cousins... There is no doubt that Charles is the son of one of Michael's sons.... Given the fact that Merrett was living with Tecumsah in 1870 and 25 he had not married and his parents may have been dead. He also showed in 1860 with Mott and was 16... So one of Michael's sons probably died before 1860... DO you have any info on Merrett born about 1855 in Mo....?? Thanks. Lance