On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 22:28:25 -0700, Bob Schimmel wrote: >I'm going to assume that the son James was not the son of Minerva? > >> Land Parcel # 791 (1850 Census Pulaski Co., KY) >> William Howard Rainwater 36 yrs Farmer $100 value >> Minerva 29 >> James 19 >> etc... It also might be a boo-boo on the part of the clerk who made the original record. William Howard Rainwater is listed with an 1813 birth year in his parents' family Bible and Minerva is recorded with the same birth year in the 1870 census. Or it might be a bit of age trimming on behalf of female vanity. :-) scr