This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/14638.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Nice to hear from you. I found a Mitchel Smith in Nicholas Co Ky. The Census shows he was 50 to 60 years old in 1830 with 6 members in the family. Then the head of house hold in 1840 was between 20 to 30 with 5 members in the family I an trying to follow up on the unlikely possibility that the father died between 1830 and 40 and further that his first son was named after him. Then the family disappears in the 1850 census. I will keep you posted if I can verify anything. Probably just a fluke