In a message dated 2/4/01 7:51:08 PM Central Standard Time, milleriw@mbay.net writes: > There is an entry in the "Texas Marriages to 1850" database on Ancestry.com > for what looks like this family. It would be a second marriage of James' > father, following the death of his mother Harriet in 1845. > > "Mallard, Susan J. married Ozment, Varnum on 17 Sep 1850 in Cherokee County, > Texas" > > These marriage records, compiled by Liahona Research at the LDS Family > History Library in Salt Lake City, UT, unfortunately do not contain > citations for the origin of each entry. > > Caroline Miller > I have also found an 1860 Cherokee County, Texas census that has the following: V. Ozment 47 keeping hotel b. N.C. Sarah J. 27 housekeeping b. Alabama Jas. W. 18 clerk b. Tenn. John 16 b. Tenn. Bettie 9 b. Texas Eldridge 7 b. Texas Jefferson 5 b. Texas So, this has Sarah while the other one has Susan. I have not looked up any other later Cherokee County census. In the 1850 census it just list Varnum as 34 being a merchant born in N.C. and his son James 7 years of age born in Tenn. The John from above is not mentioned? Lon Martin