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/zcB.2ACI/34.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Michael Bachelder, Thank you so much for that info. It seems to tie up a lot of what I've been working on. My Barnard family moved to Missouri from Tennessee and the James I am looking for was in the 1850 census with his brothers, sisters and Mother Pheba Barnett (later census listed them as Barnard) but then he disappears. In that census he is listed as not being able to read or write as is the James in Linn Co. Sarah is listed as being born in Missouri so perhaps they met on the way to Oregon. The fact that he named his youngest child Phebey is possibly circumstantial but compeling. I shall now look to se if I can find a Sarah Carter in the same area of Missouri in 1850 and get back to you. Thanks again.