This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Umphress/Horton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZkB.2ACI/1689.1.1 Message Board Post: Have you been able to find any more on Mitchell, Artemissa's father? I have several documents which state that he was illegitimate, which was not unusual in those days, and didn't mean the same as nowadays. The only Umphress's I have been able to find in all of the research I've done over the years is a John Umphress, 20 y.o. in 1775 Frederick Co., MD, then later, Edmund Umphress; his descendants settling in VanAlstyne Co., TX. One of his sons was named Francis Ulysses, where Mitchell's son was named Francis Ufrates (spelled that way in Mitch's probate file), or "Frate", his nickname. Edmund also had a son named John Riley, where Mitch's oldest son was named John Robert ( I erred in the earlier group sheet). I also have a pension file for a John R. Umphress in FL, who was born in AL. When I went to this census report, it was spelled Humphries, and had a 72 y.o. Uriah living with them. Several living relatives have said Missie's husband was named Levi, but I have no offi! cial documentation of that as yet. When I had the land search done on Mitchell's inheritance of land, the State sent a report which gave only Martha Humphries, illeg. as deed holder, and it was issued to her as "John Stokes heir". How Mitch obtained the land is a mystery; James Jones, J.P. was his guardian and reportedly was to sell the land on the court house steps in Wash. Co., GA in 1829, but he still owned it when he died in 1859, so he was either a direct heir or it was left to him right after it was issued in 1827. Puzzling! Hope you'll keep in touch, Barb