This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Woodlief, Woodliff, Oglesby, Jackson, Bradford, Newell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AKB.2ACI/1231 Message Board Post: A published genealogy shows the family of BENJAMIN PHILLIPS & Mary WOODLIFF/WOODLIEF (md 23 July 1839, Granville Co, NC) and enumerated in the 1850 Granville Co NC census, as being one-and-the-same as the following BERRY PHILLIPS family found in the 1860, 1870, 1880 Lafayette Co, MS, censuses. Does anyone have any other evidence which might offer clues as to whether BENJAMIN Phillips of NC might be the same person as BERRY (possibly short for Littleberry?) Phillips of Lafayette Co, MS? The family in Lafayette Co MS: 1860>>Miss>>Lafayette Co>> (twshp not stated), PO Paris; pg 77(hand numbered); enumerated 4 Sept 1860; (ancestry img 77 of 240) #493/493(line 20) Berry PHILLIPS, 54, farmer, val 5400?/2000; b NC; Mary “ , 39, b NC; Mary “, 13; b NC; Jane “, 10, b NC; - said to have md William Norwood NEWELL; Rebecca “ , 6, b NC; - said to have md W.S. BRADFORD; Sallie? “, 5, b Miss; - said to have md Robert JACKSON; Martha “, 4, b Miss; - said to have md John Thomas OGLESBY; William “, 1, b Miss; Catherine “, 1 (bracket with “twins” written to side); b Miss; ------------ 1870>>Miss>>Lafayette Co>>Township Six, Tyro PO; pg 390B (stamped); enumerated 22 Oct 1870 (ancestry img 4 of 36) #37/37 (line 1) PHILLIPS, Berry, 67, farmer, val 525/600; b NC; “ , M. A. (fem), 49, house keeping; b NC; “ , Sarrah (fem), 16; at home; b Miss; " , Martha, 14, at home, b Miss; “ , Wm, 11, at home; b Miss; “ , Marticia, 11 (fem), at home, b Miss; ------------ 1880>>MISS>Lafayette Co> (township not stated) ED 79 pg 277B (stamped) enumerated 23 June 1880 (ancestry img 42 of 64) #413/414 (line 17) Mary PHILLIPS Self W Female W 59 b.NC Keeping House fa b. NC, mo b. NC; William PHILLIPS Son S Male W 20, measles; b. MS, Farmer fa b. NC, mo b NC; John YOUNG laborer, S Male W 26 b. MS Farm Labor fa b. AL, mo b. MA; ------------- The family that is supposed to be one and the same as this one is shown in 1850 in NC as follows, and does not appear to fully "match up": 1850>>NC>>Granville>>Fishing Creek pg 89A (stamped); enumerated 2 Aug; #49 (all shown b NC) Benjamin PHILIPS, 33, overseer, b NC; [so b. ca 1817] Mary “, 29; [so b 1821] John “, 9; [so 1841] Theophilis “, 6 [so b 1844] Mary E. “ , 4 [so b 1846] ----------- ANY help greatly appreciated.