Thank you all for the help with the census on Lancaster 1850, 1860 and 1880. You have been most helpful. Cuzzin Bill, thank you so much. The census record for 1880 which you sent me is my boy! Also Donald Maring send the 1850 data. Thank you so much. Cuzzin Bill, The William J. age 15 was actually a step son of Ervin Knight. The son was a Williams. Ervin Knight's second wife was Nora Nancy Stogner who was the widow of William Williams a Yankee who left her in Lancaster County to go back up north to sale some land. He was not to be gone very long, but she never heard from him again. No one knows what happened to him, he could have been killed for this was the era of the Civil War or he could have deserted the wife and two children. The second child was a girl named Birdie Williams born 1866. She is not on the 1880 census you sent. But the others are Nancy Lou Ells Josephine Knight married Jessie Franklin Catoe, Andrew Jackson Knight was born 1872, Ellie Albert Knight was born 1874, Martha A. Knight was born 1878, Julie Anne Knight born Feb 19, 1881 married Mack Eudy of Monroe, NC, Joseph Lee Knight born Oct 8, 1884 married Arzenia Estridge. I knew three of these children but the others I have very little on. I just cannot figure the name of the wife on the 1880 census. You have Reuel L. that is far out. Unless he had a third wife, but her age matches my Nora Nancy Stogner. Any suggestions? Thanks again to all of you. Aileen