This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AiB.2ACE/1111 Message Board Post: Finally I appear to have located my grandmother's family on the Freestone County census 1880. It has Marshal Martin and wife Elizabeth J. and a number of children, among them my grandmother Harrit E. L. Martin, age 5, and her older sister Auguster L. Martin, age 13. This family eventually moved to Erath County, Texas and my grandmother married George Rufus Stracener in 1895. Neither lady spelled their name as on the census, but we know how names were mispelled back then. All were born in Tennessee except for Elizabeth J. who was born in N. Carolina. I know a few bits of information on this family, but none of it adds up to make sense for a complete picture. Any help greatly appreciated on where in Tennessee they came from or anything else.