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/nhB.2ACI/1242 Message Board Post: Looking for information on the James R. Jenks family that is listed in the 1870 Census for Jefferson Co. TN Pg. 497 B. District 12, Watts Foundry. 41 Jenks, James R. 53 VA Sarah L 44 NC Margaret 16 TN David J TN James 12 TN Vesta J. 9 TN Jerry 7 TN Charles 3 TN Alfred 1 TN also listed in his household is: Ricker, Sarah 29 SC John W. 11 TN Isabelle 9 TN George 5 TN Marion F. 2 TN Falks, Elizabeth 32 TN Sarah 9 TN I am interested in his relationship with Sarah Ricker and her children. I belive Sarah Ricker was the mother of my Gg grandfather Nathan Dempsey Ricker and his brother Benjamin Franklyn Ricker. Her children John, Susan Isabelle, George Washington Ricker were the children of Joseph Page Ricker who was killed in the Civil War. All other children did not belong to him, but took the Ricker surname. We can not find this family again anywhere. I belive that the Marion F. Ricker listed is Benjamin Franklyn Ricker. As they were born in the same year, and there was talk of a name change at some point in "Frank's" life. Dempse and Frank married sisters, Mary Jane and Flore Bradford and moved to Texas in the early 1900's. I have been unable to locate them anywhere in TNN, I have receipt for Dempse Ricker for the amount of $1.00 for Property taxes of the year 1894, paid Feb. 4, 1895 in Greeneville, Greene Co TNN. We belive that the younger children were of James Jenks, but no proof is found. We just know that after 1870 the entire family seems to dissapear and cant be located. Sarah shows back up in Greene Co. TNN in 1891 on the Widows list and applies for Pension. According to a family bible kept by Flore Bradford Ricker, the mother of Dempse and Frank was Sarah Woods, daughter of Hezzie Car Woods and Bettsie Nights. and the father was James Ricker. the Sarah found in the 1870 Census with James Jenks is the daughter of Zedekiah (sometimes called Hezekiah) and Elizabeth Knight. The boys are NOT those of Joseph Ricker, and we can make no link to Sarah and a James Ricker. But she is linked with James Jenks. If this family is familiar to anyone i hope that it may hold the key to our ancestry as I suspect we are Jenks' decendants rather than Ricker's. Thanks. Rachell chadl@gorge.net