This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rutherford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XJB.2ACE/601.1.1 Message Board Post: I believe that the census taker must have asked for the names of all their children and someone gave them the name of every one in the family and not just those living there at the time. I believe R.M. to be my gg-grandfather Robert M. Rutherford who was living in Texas in 1860. He was married to Epsey Ann Lewis in Rankin County, MS in 1850. The fact that Volney appears in two places at one time makes me think R.M. could be listed with his parents and on his own in Texas.