This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Word Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1652.1.1 Message Board Post: Martha, Thanks very much for the information. It appears Mary Elizabeth died after the birth of her daughter. I have a record of a Thomas Word, Jr. marrying Mary Ann Stearns on 13 Jul 1853 in Marshall Co. This could be a second marriage for Thomas J. Word after his wife died or another. I had thought Thomas Jefferson Word was possibly the son of Thomas Adams Word of Surry Co., NC, as Thomas J. acted as the attorney for Thomas Adams Word in 1828 when the latter was in Habersham Co., GA. I wonder where Thomas J. Word died and is buried?