I found two websites from Horry Co. that showed the family of John George GORE, and I believe that the family in those databases is the same family found in household 860 of the 1850 Horry Co. census. I'm not sure, but I suspect that Sarah E. GORE, b. abt. 1842, was my great-grandmother. A distant, older relative of mine told me that my great-grandmother was raised by a George GORE (a preacher). The story is really strange. Sarah's granddaughter-in-law said that Sarah was really George GORE's sister's child, but George raised her as his own. I searched the census awhile back looking for a Sarah E. GORE shown as a child of a George GORE who was the right age in 1850 to be newly married to my great-grandfather by 1860. This was the only child Sarah GORE at all in the 1850 census of Horry Co., and she was the right age and shown as the child of John George GORE. To make it even more interesting, the names of her mother, father and siblings are many of the same names my Sarah GORE gave to her children - Annie, Mary, Jane, John, Dorcas. Children in the database were Charity, Eliza, William Edward, Charles P., Dorcas, John Oneil, Sarah E., Martha M., Annie Jane, and Prudence. Children on the census were Charles P., Dorcas, John O., and Sarah E. The others had grown up and moved away from home by 1850. The only hang up to my theory is that the database I found shows that Sarah E. GORE married William GRAHAM, but it also shows that her sister, Eliza GORE, married William GRAHAM. I thought it possible that this was a mistake, or, by some odd chance, two sisters married men named William GRAHAM. My Sarah E. GORE married Robert T. BOYD, Jr., and I think she married him fairly young (maybe 18 or so). I suppose she could have married William GRAHAM prior to marrying Robert since they did marry quite young during the 19th century, and perhaps he died. I wrote to the person who owned the database to see if there was documentation to support the Sarah GORE-William GRAHAM marriage or to find out where it came from to check. The person with the database did not respond. I found the same information in another Horry Co. database, but I did not contact that database owner . I did download the GEDCOM, and when downloaded, Sarah's marriage to William GRAHAM was not included. I found that John George GORE's only sister, Susannah, married a cousin and had multiple children. It is interesting that Susannah died in 1842, the year Sarah was born, leaving her husband, Col. John GORE, with 7 children ranging in age from 16 to 3. I suppose it is possible that Susannah's brother (who was Col. John GORE's cousin as was Susannah who married her cousin) might have taken and raised a newborn because he had a wife, Mary Ann, to care for the child. I checked the census further. There was no Sarah GRAHAM married to a William GRAHAM in the 1860 Horry Co. census (the next census after the 1850 census that found Sarah E. GORE to be 8 years old). There was, however, in the 1850 census, an Eliza GRAHAM, age 22, living in the JENRETT household no. 150 (an older child of John George GORE & sister of Sarah who had already married and moved away from home by 1850?). William GRAHAM was not there. Maybe Eliza GORE did marry him, and he died. I've run across two people who have the book Lets Meet The Gores by Otis PRINCE. I think it should be titled Let's Confuse The Gores. One person told me that she looked up Sarah E. GORE, daughter of John George and Mary Ann GORE, and it says she married William GRAHAM and that her sister, Eliza GORE, also married William GRAHAM. Another person told me that the book does not list a Sarah Elizabeth GORE but that there is a Preacher GORE, son of John GORE and Minney UNKOWN or Unknown MINNEY, who married Mary Ann COX (this would be the same family as the one identified in the databases I found and the census). But this person says the book indicates that George GORE and Mary Ann COX had three children, Herman GORE, Martha GORE, and John R. GORE. Only one of these children's names match the census or database names that have, heretofore, matched up exactly. I would appreciate it if anyone who has this book can confirm what is really in there about the family, and whether anyone knows if this Sarah E. GORE did, in fact, marry a William GRAHAM, or if that was unsubstantiated information in the Prince book. I am also particularly interested in whether Mary Ann, wife of John George GORE, was a COX since I believe my gggrandmother, Elizabeth, was a COX. If my Sarah E. GORE grew up in Horry County, she had to be somewhere, and this child of John George GORE is the only child Sarah GORE in all of the 1850 census I've been able to find. Thanks for any help. Jan