This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Avant/Marshall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jhB.2ACI/240 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on a female Avant who married a Harvey (?) Marshall and had a son James David Marshall born Nov. 1862 in either Raleigh or Bolivar, TN. In two different census years Jame sDavid Marshall lists his mother being born in Virginia in one and North Carolina in another.