>On a Family group sheet in the Hall file in the MC Genealogy Room [shared by > Ralph W. Garrett] it lists the marriage year for Jonathan McPeters and Hopa > Hall as 1824. I wonder where this date originated?!?!?! Possibly from the year of birth for Martha McPETERS in the 1850 census? The issue would be the estimated birth year for "son" David McPETERS being about 1819 based on the 1850, 1860, and 1880 census. I have not been able to locate this family in 1870 - in 1880 they were in Madison Co., AL. David is listed as a widower in 1880, so Rhoda WEBB, daughter of John WEBB and Nancy HALL (hope I am right as to which WEBBs!) must have died. So - was David not actually the son of Jonathan McPETERS? Perhaps his stepson? The names of the children of David McPETERS and Rhoda WEBB certainly suggest the HALL connection with a daughter named Hopa (Hopie) Frances and a son named Martin. But there is also the McPETERS naming pattern with sons Jonathan and John. I am still leaning toward Jonathan and Hopa marrying a bit 'earlier' than was usual for a male in those days . . . about 1819. Jonathan and Hopa's daughter Martha, who I have finally determined did not fall off the face of the earth after 1850, was married to John BREEDLOVE abt. 1853. Year of marriage is estimated by birth of first child Rufus Breedlove in 1854 and I was able to make the BREEDLOVE connection with the Union Baptist Church records. Georgeanne