This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ReB.2ACE/1423.2.2.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Pat, I missed your listing of the Eldridge Bell family in the 1880 census (could you post that, with as much info. that you find, of the 1880 census, please) I do not feel the children you name for them in the 1880 census would have been their's, but perhaps grandchildren or?? The neice would have been the child of a sibling of either Eldridge or Eleanor. Do you know who? You wrote: " On the 1880 census they (do you mean Eldridge & Elaeanor Bell ?) are shown with children Viney L. and Martha E and niece Sarah. By that time my ggrandfather, Steven Thomas Bell was married to Mary Francis Threlkeld in 1871 " Thanks for helping fill in the puzzle pieces.