This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gVB.2ACI/2746.2.1 Message Board Post: Good question. I looked at the info I have which is very little: Groom: Thomas J Ferrell Bride: Martha Ann Oneal Bond Date: 15 Sep 1863 Bond #: 000067787 Marriage Date:16 Sep 1863 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 005955 County:Johnston Record #: 01 072 Witness: Thos. D. Snead In 1870 he is alone with 2 children: One is a male named Thomas who is 4, the other a male named Matta? age 2. I think she died in chidlbirth or soon after and is problaby buried in Johnston Co., but a check of the listings I have for graves there doesn't how hers but probably too early to have lasted since they seemed to use wood and then it was no more! FERRELL, T J (1870 U.S. Census) NORTH CAROLINA , JOHNSTON, CLAYTON TWP Age: 23, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: NC Series: M593 Roll: 1145 Page: 360: Performed By: J. F. Ellington How do you fit in? Where you a descedant of his son Thomas? Know the other son's name? Know Thomas Jefferson Ferrell's father's name? This is not my direct line but I keep adding people sideways! Sharon