This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sanders, Sheppard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CKB.2ACI/896.2.2 Message Board Post: Yes, I believe it to be the same John Sanders. On the marriage record and in most Sanders researchers records, he is John F. In the obit I received he was John J. I have only a transcript, so no idea whose mistake. The dates you have are the same as I do. Nancy was born ca 1871, according to various census records, also in Lawrence Co., Ms. I cannot find her on any census after her marriage, nor obit, nor grave. Ditto the child. If John was buried in the Frost cemetery, she might have as well. But a tornado in the 1930s insured we will never know for sure. Someone else asked that I post the obit here, but I got distracted. It was sent to me by Mitchell Sanders, who had searched quite a while for it. I hope he does not mind I paste it below. If anyone else has any knowledge of what happened to this Nancy Sheppard and her child/children, please let me know!! The Frost (Tex) Triumph -- via Mitchell Sanders (4-6-03) "Died - John J. Sanders on the morning of March 11th, 1891, two miles south of Frost, of pneumonia and measles after lingering about five weeks of severe suffering, passed into rest. Brother Sanders was born in Lawrence County, Mississippi, July 2nd, 1864. He came to Texas some four years ago and stopped in the neighborhood of Frost, where he lived up to the time of his death. He accepted salvation {at} the hands of Christ and joined the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and was baptized by Rev. D. P. Sanders. On the 12th of January, 1888, he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Sheppard. He was a man that was loved by all who knew him, as he was a man upright in his general life and true to his Christian profession and a peaceful quiet citizen, a true husband and a kind father. During his illness he never was hard to murmur nor complain, but was submissive to the will of Him that giveth and taken life."