This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GkB.2ACI/939.1 Message Board Post: You will find your Ship/Shipp family listed in the 1880 Bowie County census through www.familysearch.org. Listed as follows: J H Ship, 34, GA GA VA M S Ship, wife,26, MS GA -- J H Ship, son, 8, AR M J Ship, daughter, 6, AR J R Ship, son, 4, TX Lenora Ship, daughter, 1, TX Also; C A Ship, 31, GA [brother to J H]; wife, M O Ship, 25, AR and children. In 1870 brothers are found in Beach, Lafayette Co. AR John H Shipp, 24, farmer, GA Charley A Shipp, 22, farmer, GA Zachariah Davis, 22, farmer, AL George Hinds, 19, farm laborer, VA S Shipp, male, 30, farmer, GA Comfort Shipp, female, 26, AL Richard H Shipp, 2, AR. Use the information provided through Rootswebs for Bowie County at the following link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbowie/ There is transcribed data on this website including marriage records showing M J Shipp married J O Holmes on 22 Dec 1890 and then married T M Cantrell 30 Sept 1900. [data possibly misread for spelling and dates] The original marriage license for Minerva and Oscar Holmes can be obtained from TEXARKANA USA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY - P.O. Box 5825 , Texarkana, TX 75505-5825 for $3.00. Others for Ship/Shipp family member as well.