This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PIERCE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CMB.2ACE/48.1.1 Message Board Post: Gloria, As far as I can tell Nathan was born in Missouri. He was found in the hh of Richard Pearce [Pierce] in Franklin Co. MO on the 1850 Census. 1870 & 1880 census stated he was born in MO. The 1880 census showed his father born in KY. Richard was only shown in one census, that being the 1850 and it showed born in MO.