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/lBHBAIB/93.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Gloria, As far as I know my 2nd great grandfather, William Severs or Seavers was born in TN. ca 1794-97 and was in Washington County, AR. buying or selling land in 1838, also patented land there in 1840. He with wife Matilda and 12 children[one a Jacob] are in the Newton County, MO 1840 cesus. Carol