This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.stoddard/1594/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I put this on the Babb board with no response so I will try here. My gg grandmother was Elizabeth Babb Tankersley daughter of William M. Babb and Temperance Shipman. There was also a Philip Babb born ca 1800 living in Stoddard County. Apparently they both had sons named Andrew Jackson Babb and they lived next to each other so it is difficult to untangle the families. Some of the items on WorldConnect seem to mix them together. We know from Phillip's will that he had a son Andrew who was named as his administrator in 1871. However when the will was probated in 1875 Andrew had died. There was a Jackson Babb living two doors from Phillip in 1850. He had a wife named Rhoda. They were in New Madrid Co. at the 1870 census and had sons Thomas and Washington. In 1880, Rhoda is a widow Rhoda Conover living with son Wash Babb. So, this Andrew Jackson seems to be the son of Phillip. One census says Andrew was born in MO but two others say Tennessee which is where Phillip came from. In 1850, another, 18 year old Andrew J. Babb, born in MO, is living with the family of Daniel and Narcissa (Babb) Bland in Cedar County MO. Andrew has wife Eliza and 1 year old daughter Mary. In 1860 both Andrew and Eliza are gone and 11 year old Mary and 7 year old Martha are still living with the Blands in Cedar Co. MO. Daniel Bland and Narcissa Babb were married in Perry Co. IL 16 Jan 1834. Who is this Narcissa? What is her relationship to Andrew? Next, we have Andrew Jackson "A J" Babb married Lucy A. M. Long 22 May 1864 in Madison Co. IL and Andrew died there in 1867. Lucy took her children Joseph David Babb and Sarah D. M. Babb and went to Dallas Co. MO near Buffalo where William M. Babb and Temperance Shipman's son David Walden Babb was living. So, I would say this is the son of William M. Is this the same Andrew who was in Cedar Co. in 1850? Is Narcissa another child of William M. Babb. It is in many records now that William's middle name was Matthew. Is there any proof of that? His mother was Sarah Morrow. Couldn't he have been named for her father? Ted Stout