Posted on: Lawrence Co. Ms Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ms/Lawrence/538 Surname: Carney, Tullos, Wilkes, Mullins ------------------------- Fay, Have you checked the 1850 Marion co. MS census? On the 22nd of Aug 1850 - Wm ? Rankin enumerated John Curney next door to E. Curney family. John was 70 a farmer. E. Curney is listed as 44 a Miller born in Tenn. with M. Curney age 47 (wife) born in GA. The children P., T., S., J. age 15, 12, 10, 8 with C. Peavy age 2 male Of the Curney children S is male the others are female. I believe the family #129 is Elijah Carney with wife Mahala (Mahalia) Tullos Carney. These children are the younger children Mary Polly, Thankful Ann Patience, John Simeon and Lucretia Jane. I am not sure who the Peavy child is. Elijah's oldest daughter Talitha is with her husband Isaiah Smith in Lawrence co, in 1850. Daughter Courtney is in this census family 126 with her husband John Ballard and 2 children. Son Carrol Carney is in family 125 with wife Clarissa Williamson. The John Curney (Carney) is of the age to be the father of Elijah Carney but I have not done all the research on this yet. Most of the other people in this area of the county seem to be related to each other in some way. Some names are Yawn, Thompson, Spiers, Johnson, Hammonds, Tullos, Farris, Elliott and Reid. Zora Olsson has some information that shows Elijah Carney was in Marion co. in 1830, Pike in 1840, Marion in 1850. Zora said he probably died in Marion co. but some of the family was in Lawrence co. Zora has a death certificate for Mary (Polly) Carney (m. Daniel Westly Wallace & Moses Rials) which proves her mother was Mahala Tullos and father was Elijah Carney. I just found a FTM Home page for Doyle Baker that has some information on this family in a file Descendants of John Carney. Some of the information adds to my information, but some of my data is not in his information. I have not yet corresponded with Doyle. I hope this information helps. Please let me know if you can expand on this information. [email protected] Darlene