Would like to enlist help of some of you researchers to determine the correct dod for Samuel D. The Reavis Family Book says he died at age 85..so if he was born Feb 1792 as is said, he would have died in 1877. I have another rec, frm somewhere? that give his dod as Mar 1877. BUT his own dau Susan in a letter (Dec 26 1875) to her neice Rachel Steelman Reavis Paine..says "since Papa's Death which was a year the twelvth of the the present month" making it Dec 12 1874! Perhaps the date of Mar 1877, is frm some estate records; have run into this before, one that comes to mind, I believe, was David-3. He is on the 1860 census Johnson Co Mo.,Samuel D 68 ,Melvina 18 and Rachel 12 (gdau), which does indicate his wife was deceased (rec say she died June 1857..which presents another prob, I have she died in Illinois? was it Mo?) 1870 census Moniteau Co Mo. his household consisted of himself, Susan and her son Willie... Would be ineteresting also, to know just where he died Cooper Co, Johnson Co., or Moniteau Co, Missouri? Thanks for your help. *Barb