Hi Dixie, From: <MissDixieB@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 7:28 PM > To the TUNIS,etc. List: > > I have been trying to connect my William TUNIS to his heritage for a very > long time. I have him in a Survey Book in Sevier County, TN in 1824 and on > the 1830 Census of Sevier County, between the ages of 40 / 50. He is married > to Lucy (SURIN) TUNIS and they have four females and three males on this > census. I have been able to run a line on daughter, Sarah (b 1795): my Gr. > Gr. Grandmother, who married Joel SCOTT. Also, I have some information on > another daughter, Mary Surin (TUNIS), who married Amos OWENSBY. > > In November of 1846, Lucy TUNIS was at Court in Sevier County, TN trying to > claim her dowry, as her husband, William TUNIS, had died. > > I have checked this list many times to see if there would be a clue as to who > the parents of my William (b 1780 / 1790) might be. I do not even know for > sure where he was born. So, he missed by 4 years being in the 1850 census which would (hopefully) have shown the state of his birth. But how about Lucy? Did you find her in the 1850 census? Could her origin be a clue? Even if they married in TN, their families could have migrated together. Or how about their children in the 1880 census? There, they were supposed to say the state where their parents were born. Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com