In a message dated 10/16/2000 3:12:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > ccording to the stories from my Grandfather, Homer Lewis Revis, his > father (Milton Louis) was sent to live with his maternal uncle, Benjamin > Shephard, after the marriage to the second wife. She did not want > anything to do with him and his siblings. Milton lived with Benjamin > until his Grandmother grew ill, and then he moved i Cheryl, you know that story could be what is found in the census records, ie. maybe had not yet left the home of father and Mary Ann, since they had been married only 2 yrs at time of 1870 census, and you find all three there; after could well have lv'd with his Uncle Benjamin Shephard until about the 1880 census, when he is found in household of his grandparents along with his sister Catherine. Remember that household was next to his father and Mary Ann. William no doubt would have been gone frm home in 1880 or in another home. *B