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/JhB.2ACE/215.2 Message Board Post: Hale T Mitchell lived in Miller Co, AR. He applied for a homestead but died before it was consumated. His wife Margaret did get the homestead. Look in the BLM records for this homestead deed. Hale & Margaret also had children that the census (1880) shows.