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/JiB.2ACE/596.1 Message Board Post: I remember seeing Napoleon B. Sikes in Parker Co. TX census. I found Elias D. Sikes in the same place. Elias D. Sikes married Louisa Ellis in Conecuh Co., AL. They were on the 1850 Conecuh Co., AL. I am researching this Ellis family. 1850 Conecuh Co., AL 456 Elias Sikes 20 SC Louisa 17 AL Child 1/12 AL [Caroline] 1860 LEON COUNTY TEXAS Enum. date Sept. 8, 1860 Family Name Age Occu Born Other 360 Wm. Ellis 68 farmer NC Ann 50 AL Elias D. Sikes 31 GA Louisa 29 AL Caroline E. 10 AL Dogeer F. 5 TX John W. 2 TX PARKER CO., TX: 1870 no Elias D. Sikes / Sykes or E. or E.D. or Louisa or William Ellis. Cannot find them in 1870. In 1880, Louisa is no more and he is married to a Jane L. 1880 Parker Co., TX 334 20-20 Ben F. Ellison 28 334 Sikes, E. D. 55 keeping hotel b. GA Jane L. 57, keeping house NC ENg NC Wm B 18 son Matty 17 dau p. 338 35 John D. Ellis w m 29 single GA NC GA clk in Grocery 1880 Census Place: Weatherford, Parker, Texas Source: FHL Film 1255322 National Archives Film T9-1322 Page 334D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace E.D. SIKES Self M M W 55 GEORGIA Occ: Keeping HotellFa: --- Mo: --- Jane L. SIKES Other F M W 57 NC Occ: Keeping House Fa: ENGLAND Mo: NC William B. SIKES Son M S W 18 TEXAS Occ: At Home Fa: GEORGIA Mo: --- Matty L. SIKES Dau F S W 14 TEXAS Occ: At Home Fa: GEORGIA Mo: --- I haven't been able to find William and Ann Ellis after the 1860 census of Leon Co., Tx.