This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reneau, Mullins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nhB.2ACI/496.543.1 Message Board Post: I hope Harold and Bob both get this note. I've exchanged with one of you before but I wasn't aware Ellen (Elen)'s middle initial was M. Could this be "Mary" who was the wife or dau. of Joseph MULLINs b 1790 VA. When he applied for his pension (in Bedford Co.) he named his wife as Mary. From the 1830 Jeff. Co. TN census we know she was much, much younger than he was. It's very likely a 2nd or 3rd wife however. I've been trying to "fit" Ellen as a dau. of Burl but it seemed so unlikely because he has a dau. Sarah Ellen "Ellen" who I've already traced out of TN. It would make sense that Ellen M. was either his sister, and named after their mother. Thanks, Debbie (Woolfpac@prodigy.net)