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/0hB.2ACE/1452 Message Board Post: Hi, My aunt has a grandfather named Sterling Jack STRANGE (or perhaps Starlin Jack or Sterling Jack). She can't find anything about his parents or siblings and we can't find him in the 1880 U.S. Federal Census despite much searching in archives, microfilmed censuses, online, etc. Jack (as he was usually called) was born in Texas in January 1856, according to the 1900 U.S. Federal Census for Robertson County, Texas. His father was listed as being born in Georgia and his mother was listed as having been born in Alabama.(However, the 1900 census for Robertson county, Texas, said that his father was born in Alabama and his mother was born in Mississippi. By the 1920 census, also in Robertson County, Texas, both parents were listed as having been born in Alabama.) We have the same problem with Jack's birthdate. Although the census said he was born in January 1856, his tombstone says he was born in 1850. His age in the family bible is very difficult to read. It says he was born January 31, 1850 (or maybe 1854) and has been crossed out to read 1856. There seems to be some confusion about his year of birth, but his ages as listed in the censuses for 1900-1910-1920 support a birth year of 1856. Starling Jack STRANGE's marriage is listed in courthouse records on 12 November 1878 in Falls County, Texas, with "no return". He married Nannie E. WEATHERLY (or maybe, WEATHERBY)on 14 November 1878, according to his family bible. Nannie E. WEATHERLY (WEATHERBY?) was born in 1850 and died in 1910, according to her tombstone. The 1900 census for Nannie said that she was born in Texas in November, 1858. Her age in the 1900 census supports a birth in 1858 but the family bible says she was born 5 October 1851. She seems to have fibbed about her age on censuses, unless her husband put the wrong birth year. He wrote most of the entries but apparently all at once, so errors could creep in. The family bible says that Nannie died 29 April 1910. Nannie's parents were both born in Alabama, according to the censuses for 1900 and 1910. These children were born to Starling Jack STRANGE and Nannie E. WEATHERLY (or WEATHERBY).Dates come from the family bible and are supported in censuses. 1. Carie Glendarie STRANGE was born 17 December 1879. She married Hiram? A. WALKER 3 December 1896. 2. Jettie Jewell STRANGE was born 14 December 1881. She married Duncan (Dunkin)Littleton CLARK 21 September 1898. She died 8 November 1951 in Marlin, Falls, Texas. Jettie was the mother of my aunt, so we have information on her children and descendants. 3. Lula Mattie STRANGE was born 12 March 1884 and died 2 August 1900. 4. Thomas Jackson STRANGE was born 5 September 1886 and died 9 May 1901. 5. Jessie Elmer STRANGE was born 15 January 1888 and died March 1950 6. Eunace Pearl STRANGE was born 25 February 1890 and died 10 August 1905. 7. William Britton STRANGE was born 22 September 1893 and died 14 December 1952. 8. George Silas STRANGE was born 3 November 1896 and died 17 June 1966. All the children were born in Texas. Starling Jack STRANGE and his wife Nannie E. WEATHERLY were living in Robertson County, Texas, at the time of the 1900-1910 censuses. The widowed Starling Jack STRANGE and an unknown girl named Hashie ?? STRANGE were boarders in his married daughter (Jettie Jewell STRANGE CLARK's house in Bremond, Robertson County, Texas at the time of the 1920 census. Hashie was born about 1917-1918 in Texas, as were her parents, whoever they might have been. Starling Jack STRANGE died in Harris County, Texas, on 24 January 1927. I am advertising in hopes that someone is connected to this family in some way or can help with this difficult branch of my aunt's family. Thanks, Judy