Evening all, I need some suggestions from you. I am trying to locate info on my great grandfather John Morgan Tennell. He has been hiding really good! I found him on the 1870 Breckinridge Co. KY with his family at age 9. From then on, he is one big blank! The family story is he went from KY to TX to OK. But he apparently avoided the census. I haven't found him or his family in 1880, although there were some land transactions in the 1880's by his father in KY. He does not show up in 1900 TX or Indian Territory. ditto 1910. I have him on the one census, his death certficate that shows he died in 1938 and a photo of his grave stone in Allen Cemetery, Allen, Pontotoc Co., a copy of the family page from his family bible and a picture of him. That's all I have to say this man lived at one time. One of my cousins' said he was living with them when he died. She said her mother had tried to get him to apply for the Old Age Pension, OK had back in the '30's, but he wouldn't. He said he "didn't want the Gov. to know anything about him and he didn't want to have anything to do With the Gov.". And ya know? I believe him!! Maybe I have been looking on the "wrong side" of the law! <g> Any ideas? Some indications are he moved into Indian Territory before 1900. Also, I think he was married 2 times, somewhere. His wife, Mattie Bell Watters/Waters was still in her parents household in 1900, Choctaw Nation, I. T. She was listed as age 30 and single. Help! Where do I go from here? Ethel Taylor ===== <bandony@yahoo.com>, <rebelcherokee@hotmail.com> CRISP-L PRINCE-L OKKIOWA-L OKGenWeb Project, OK/ITGenweb Project - <http://rebelcherokee.tripod.com/okkiowa.html> Kiowa County, OK - <http://rebelcherokee.tripod.com/itkiowa-comanche-apache.html> Kiowa Comanche-Apache Lands <http://rebelcherokee.tripod.com/itcheyenne_arapaho.html> Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands <http://rebelcherokee.tripod.com/civilwaIT.html> Civil War In Indian Territory Personal Page - Rendezvous With Yesterday, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4231/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/