If you use Ancestry.com and are looking at the 1840 Rutherford County census when you do a search (for any name) also look at any one that comes up on Richmond County North Carolina for 1840. I found my relatives in that county. It is Rutheford Co. you can clearly see Rutherford on some of the pages and "erford" on the backs of but is link to Richmond County for some reason. Now I have to go back to my Mathis family in Richmond Co. to see if they are correct. Nancy __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com