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/EhB.2ACE/483.588 Message Board Post: Hi , I'm only researching McKEEN family now due to Bruno J. ( John Brunson ) McKEEN appears on the 1880 Kimble Co., Tx. census next door to my Delphia COOPER . This gets confusing . Delphia COOPER has a daughter , Mary that married a John W. BARROWS b. abt. 1835 NY father : Ny mother Ireland, about 1874/75 possibly in Kimble Co., Tx. ( court house burned ) . Since Hugh McKEEN was from NH and children born in NY , I'm hoping for a possible connection . John W. and Mary COOPER BARROWS were also in Coleman Co. at least from 1876 -1880 . I have not been able to find any substance on John W. BARROWS before his marriage to Mary COOPER . I did find Hugh McKEEN in 1840 Allegany Co., NY and two BARROWS families in Niagara Co., NY . I also have found land records where Delphia COOPER sold land to Bruno McKEEN in 1880's Kimble Co., Tx. By chance do you know of any connection no matter the time between BARROWS and McKEEN families ? Did the McKeen family come to Texas by ship ? Thanks for any help you may give . Phyllis