This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MARRS, CARPENTER, JACKSON, HEAVIN, MANNING, HATHORNE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XNB.2ACI/779.1 Message Board Post: 1900 Census, Missouri, Ray County, Richmond Township, District 139 shows: Bolton Tom (head) b. Nov 1872 in MO age 27 Delia (wife) b. Feb 1873 in TN age 27 Orville (son) b. July 1893 in MO age 6 Jessie (son) b. Feb 1895 in MO age 5 Jossie (daughter) b. Feb 1898 in MO age 2 The census shows that Tom's parents were born in Virginia and Delia's parents were born in Tennessee. The census also shows that Delia gave birth to 4 children but only 3 were living at the time of the census. Ray County, Missouri Cemetery Records, Volume IV-VI: Name: Delia Alice Bolton Birth Date: 24 Feb 1873 Death Date: 28 Dec 1949 Cemetery: Hickory Grove Baptist Church Cemetery Description: Located four miles north of Richmond, Mo. on Highway 13, one and one half miles east on Route B, three miles east on Route F and three fourth miles south. Ancestry Family Trees: Martha E. Ford b. About 1850 in Fauquier Co., VA Residence: 1879 rented farm, near Richmond, MO Father: James T. Ford b. ABT 1820 in VA Mother: Mary Ann Bruin b. ABT 1819 in VA Married: James William Bolton b. ABT 1845 in VA on 30 JAN 1867 in Fauquier Co., VA Source:Background of a Bandit: The Ancestry of Jesse James Author: Joan M. Beamis & William E. Pullen Publication: 1971 Note: From Joan Hackett: James and Jane (Mills) Bolton had a son James who married Martha Ford. I don't know what happened to James Bolton, but Martha moved to Missouri and was friendly with the Jesse James gang. Two of her brothers were part of that gang, and Martha's brother Robert Newton Ford is supposedly the person who killed Jesse James. Hope this helps.