This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/702.2 Message Board Post: Emily, The 1870 Tippah County Census lists a Andrew Barkley, age 28, born in Tennessee. Wife Nancy, age 27, also from Tennessee. Three children listed; Tom, age 5; Mary, age 3 and Sam, age 1. This may be a little far reaching, but I'll let you decide....looking at the 1860 Tippah County Census, Nancy E. is living at home with her parents, James L. and Amy Childers. Nearby lives Anderson Barlett, age 19 from Tennessee in the household of Thomas J. Martindale and George Barlett also 19 from Tennessee and living with J. E. Abernathy. Maybe the census taker couldn't spell Barkley. Five years later (27 July 1865), Anderson and Nancy marry in Tippah County. Hope some of this helps remove your "brick wall".