This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdB.2ACE/393.2 Message Board Post: Jeff, Do you know of a Thomas Beard, born between 1816 and 1823, who married a Sarah Jane Long Cogdill, in the Jackson County, NC area, after her husband George W. Cogdill died. There were several young Cogdill children with Thomas and Sarah in the 1860 NC census. There was Mary, Sarah, Jable and Talitha. In the 1870 census only Talitha was left and she was 17. I have nothing on Thomas Beard but his name and approximate birthdate.