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/ihB.2ACI/5084.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Nan, The Thomas Reynolds' in Greene Co. are a bit elusive to track. Actually all of the Reynolds' are! But the 1830 census has Thomas Reynold's age as 20-30; in 1840 the age is 50-60, and shouldn't his age be 30-40 in 1840? His wife's age seems to be consistent with the 50-60 age as well in the 1840 census. These don't seem to be the same Thomas. The marriages of Greene Co. 1780-1837 show the following: 1808 Thomas Reynolds m. Hannah Woolsey 1826 Thomas Reynolds m. Martha Kent 1831 Thomas Reynolds m. Elizabeth Winters The Thomas Reynolds in Iowa is age 49 in the 1850 census indicating a birthdate of 1801 which if this were the same Thomas from Greene Co. his age in 1850 would coincide with a birthdate of 1800-1810, closest to the Thomas of 1830 census. But who is wife Jane? Do you have a last name for her? I really would like to know what happened to Thomas, and his son William, the grandson of Sarah Cooper Kent. The math shows that William was probably born by 1826-1827 (Thomas and Martha married in Jan.1826), and we can probably assume he was their only child before Martha evidently died. He would have been about 16 yrs old when Sarah Cooper Kent made her will in 1842.