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/DhB.2ACE/941.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't have any idea what happened to my Merrill Brown after the 1880 Alabama census thats when i lost him. However his son David M. Brown born Dec 1859 did come to Okla. but i have not searched for him-info passed on to me by a fellow researcher shows he died in Walters, Okla. but no date . He married a Marm-Anthum Woodruff Alias [Becky] and i believe she is a sister to my John W. woodruff-[my ggrandfather he was born Jan 1859 census shows alabama but i have not found either of them on the 1860 al. census and I have read every county. in Alabama. My Merrill Brown's father was William Brown born about 1793 in Va. his mother Janis was born about 1802 in Va. On the 1860 Al. census listed is a Eliza Brown M age 38 farmer dwelling 353 them my Merill dwelling 354 and a Jane or Janis dwelling 355 that could be their mother. all in Alabama, SomervilleP.O. I hope this will help, I think this family moved around all the time. Willie