Jim, Look in the Ratliff-L Archives for 1810 MS census for possible ancestors - we have some there. Barry >From: radcliff-family@attbi.com >Reply-To: RATLIFF-L@rootsweb.com >To: RATLIFF-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [RATLIFF] Ratliff's in Mississippi >Date: 11 Jun 2002 22:52:43 -0600 > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: RATLIFF/RATCLIFF/RADCLIFF/RIGDON/GIBSON/KOONCE/MURPHY/THOMAS/BYAS >& MANY OTHERS >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RGCBAEB/904 > >Message Board Post: > >Hi All, We are also searching for our Ratliff Line in Mississippi. Does >any of the following ring any bells? >Looking for Parents and or any connections to the following; > >Joseph Ratliff b. abt. 1809 - 1815 in Tenn. Miss. or Kentucky, (depending >on which census record you look at) > >Joseph was living in Carroll Co., Miss as early at 1842, he is listed on >the Tax List. He married (1st wife) Sarah Barrentine, in 1843 in Carroll >Co., Miss; Their children were; William H. b. abt. 1845; Margaret b. >abt. 1847; James Pinkney b. 1850; George b. abt. 1853 - 1855; >Greenberry b. abt. 1851 - 1855; Martha b. 1857-58 all born in Mississippi >and Joseph Jr. b. abt. 1861 in Louisiana. > >It is believed that Joseph was married (2nd) to a Mary Johnson, widow of >John Aten. in 1861 in Louisiana. No Children of this Union. > >Joseph Ratliff married (3rd wife) Elizabeth Gibson, widow of H. P. Simmons >in 1864 in Louisiana. Their children were Jesse Robert Ratliff b. 1865 >Louisiana - my grandfather >and Mary Elizabeth b. 1868. > >By 1870 Joseph and some of his children by 1st marriage have removed to >somewhere in Texas, leaving Elizabeth and two children in Louisiana. > >Have further info on Joseph and some of his descendant and would be happy >to exchange info with you. > >Jim Radcliff >radcliff-family@attbi.com > > > > > > >==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== >Please include a portion of the post you are referring to in your > replies. Quote only enough so others can follow the thread, not > the entire message. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com