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/GUB.2ACE/479.3.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the info. I had a reference that James W Cobb had moved from Greene to Pitt. Did he move to Craven, also. Did you come to the meeting this Oct. We may have talked together. Do you have Kinchens Civil War record? Where did the idea that he may have fought in the Mexican War come from? The Greene 1850 census has: 283 James B Cobb 23 284 William G Cobb 21 286 Penny Brand 23 Kinchen m. Penny Brand about 1851 It may be that there is kinship between James, William and Kinchen. Ages suggest brothers. Need to find some estate records in Edgecombe Co that will shed light on it. James B Cobb is not listed on the 1860 Greene, but William G Cobb is. It might be a good idea to find James B Cobb. 1850 Edgecombe Co census shows: Henry Owens 51 Sally 42 Peter 18 Jane 14 Amanda 13 W H 9 Ann 7 Jno. R 5 Geo. W 3 Kinchen Cobb 21 Laborer N C S