Lila Garner wrote: > > I forgot about "challenged" and can take that route. I regularly upload my database to Rootsweb, both as a way to get info out and as a backup. But "challenged will take care of it. I think Amanda, the baby, is Nancy's child. > > The Tennessee to Illinois to Georgia to Tennessee is not surprising for this family: lore says that William was born in Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee! Next door in 1860 is a Denton family, and their children, approximately the same ages, are born in Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee, both parents born Tennessee. Young Mrs. Denton was probably a Daffron. We find that Joel died in Kentucky so that's what brought Kentucky into the lore. William died in 1902 when his children weren't very old, so the lore was stale and third-hand by the time it got to me. > Your knowledge of your family is much greater than mine on your family, of course. Still, if it were my family, I'd really really want to see the breadcrumbs. Generally, migration would go west, northwest or southwest. For a family to go west (from South Carolina) then North into Illinois is possible. That they then turned around two years later and went south from Illinois to Georgia where they waited another two years to turn North again to Tennessee wants an explanation beyond wanderlust. When you toss in Missouri and Arkansas -- the WHY needs an answer ... it's not _impossible_ just unlikely enough to need copious documentation. > William age 18 is in Floyd County, Georgia, living with the William Terry family (no known relationship) in 1870. By 1876, he marries in Clark county, Arkansas and remains there until his death. > > Amanda is a 10-year-old servant to a physician in 1870 and is a niece to William Denton in 1880. She married George Frazier in 1881 but I can't find them by 1900. > > The other children cannot be found in 1870 and 1880. Lore says William was orphaned by the CW. I suspect that Nancy and the other children died, but there doesn't seem to be a way to find that out. The fact that Amanda is not living with family at age 10 indicates that the family is not intact even without the father, who died in 1861. > DID a William die in the war? Many Georgia CW records are said to be on-line from the Ga. Archives; certainly the CWSS project pages will tell you if William served. Maybe Julia has additional ideas here? Good luck.