This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gilton, Jilton, Bridgeforth Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeB.2ACE/778 Message Board Post: The 1850 census for Giles County shows a Matthew Gilton (age 60) living with the family of James and Caroline Bridgeforth. I am trying to determine whether this is the same Matthew Gilton who was living in Pittsylvania, Virginia in 1820, and whether he is the father of Thomas Jilton, who appears in the census for Greene County, TN in 1850.