This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EDGEMON/EDGEMOND/EDGMOND Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/122.1 Message Board Post: When do you first find Thomas and first wife in MO? If b. 1818, and stood by the usual rule of waiting until 21 to marry so no one had to sign permission, and men could own property, he would have married ca 1839/40. This was also the period of time when many wagon trains headed out of E. TN and other areas, heading for greener pastures in MO. What were the names of his children, sons in particular? This may give clues to look for here in TN.