This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nugent Wood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BMB.2ACE/1063.2.1 Message Board Post: The only thing I have is the 1870 census that I believe you listed in another rersponse to Tom Simkin's post. If that is our Aretha, her parents are Peter and Anna. The location of the family and the age of Aretha seem to fit. I found Peter in a later census (I believe the 1880) living in a boarding house in St. Joseph, MO, but I haven't found anything else about the rest of the family. A cousin and I visited the NW MO area where we know the Nugents lived and talked to some of the knowledgeable locals who gave us a list of names suspected to be buried in an abandoned cemetery. (It was just across the road from the Nugent homeplace.) While there were some members of a Wood family named on the list, there was no Aretha. When we visited the cemetery (climb the fence, cross the creek, and walk through overgrown areas), we could tell it was a cemetery, but could find no names on grave markers. Many of the markers had been knocked over, and the area was really overgrown. ! Apparently, the location has prevented anyone from getting mowers or any other type of equipment in to try to repair and keep it up.