This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GARNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/1329 Message Board Post: Nancy GARNER is my gggrandmother. She appears on the 1860 TX Census in McLennan Co. as wife of Peter SIMONS. They married 19 Aug 1852 in Anderson Co., TX. I know all about Peter but have nothing more on Nancy. What I have done in my search: I looked at all GARNER families in TX in 1850—none of them had an Alabama connection—and she is not there. I looked in AL and could not find her there either. Several people have contacted me over the years to tell me about a Nancy GARNER who they believe is the same one, however, the "other" Nancy is always the same one and her dates do not match with my Nancy. I recently had a stroke of inspiration to look at wills to see if she was listed as an inheritor on her father's will. I cannot find any wills listed. What I did find was on the 1840 TX Census in Houston Co.---parent county of Anderson, which I had not thought to look at previously—one listing for a GARNER & HOW (not in alphabetic order). No first names. Under "Property" it indicated they owned "2 TL in AL" "2 town lots in Alabama"—my first Alabama connection! So I looked in Alabama to see if I could find a GARNER and a HOW in the same county. In the 1831--39 Decenary Census Index, I found a Thomas GARNER and a Samuel B. HOWE in Mobile Co. I also found a marriage record for a Thomas GARNER to Mary QUINER on 12 Nov 1835—timely for Nancy's birth, IF she belongs to them. In the book "The First Settlers of Houston County Texas" I found a Thomas GARNER as one of the first petitioners on 22 April 1837 for the county to be formed—but no HOW(E).