On the 1850 Sabine County, Texas Census, I find one of my ancestors, Rebecca Fullen, a 23 year old widow with three young sons. The census shows that all three boys were born in Texas, and that she and her husband J. Fullen (James or John) were born in PA. As far as I can tell, they seem to be of the few people on that Census born in PA. On the death certificate of one son, as reported by the other son, he said his parents James FULLEN and Rebecca BALDWIN were from Tennesse and North Carolina respectivelly. I assume that probably the parents were born in PA, and moved to the other states with their families while they were young, and then moved onto Texas. Does this make sense to the rest of you? Do you think they were part of a larger Scotch-Irish migration? Melinda McLemore Strong in Texas