I am trying to locate any information I can on my Grandfather, John L. Garwood. My Grandfather was born in Camden , NJ in 1836, and he died in Bremond, TX in 1936. I have information on him after 1870 in Texas, but I have not been able to link him back to any Garwood Quaker line in the NJ or PA area however. If I am correct, Camden was under Gloucester County N.J. during that time.   John L. Garwood's father, my Great Grandfather, is listed only as H. L. Garwood on John L. Garwood's death certificate. I have been unable to locate H.L. Garwood in any of the usual family tree searches or in any of the census data. The Garwood name does not appear in the usual vital statistics searches for the 1700s and 1800s, as you would expect from a Quaker family name. The only census information I have found that may be John L. Garwood is found in the 1850 census for Burlington County . A John, Martha, and Josiah Garwood are listed as living in the household of Lewis Tabler. His age is listed as 12, however, which is about two years off. I have reason to suspect that this John Garwood may be my Grandfather because of a family legend. The legend, often repeated by my father, also a John L. Garwood, tells that my Grandfather had been living with another family when he was a boy and that the head of the household severely abused my Grandfather repeatedly. One day, the legends goes, my Grandfather, while still a boy, took a shotgun and shot the man and then ran away. Lewis Tabler disappears after the 1850 census, and John L. Garwood, does not appear in any census until 1870 in Texas .   I have learned from a Texas newspaper article on my Grandfather when he was in his late 90s, that he lived for a time in Pennsylvania before he migrated to Texas . John L. Garwood does not appear in the 1860 census for all of NJ and PA. The 1840 census of course only lists heads of households, so I can't trace John L. Garwood to any household, and there is no H.L. Garwood listed as a head of household in the 1840 census.   I would appreciate any information that may help. I am a newbie to the world of genealogy, and I have just been stumbling along so far. I live in Florida, so I do not have access to the genealogical resources of the Camden area or any of the main Quaker repositories.    Basically, I am trying to link my Grandfather, John L. Garwood, to some branch of the Garwoods in the NJ/PA area.   Additional background: John L. Garwood (my grandfather) was married to Martha Elizabeth Heath on October 10, 1866, in Texas. He was also married to Mary S. Nugent (my grandmother) on May 4, 1890, also in Texas. My father, John L. Garwood, was born in 1894, in Houston Heights, TX.  My father also had a younger sister, Lara, or Laura Lee Garwood, who died when she was still a girl. Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.