Barb Already you have told me something I did not know. W. C. Hart was a minister! Great! This is what the soundex told us: Soundex 1900 Texas Hart, William C. Vol 73 E. D. 51 Sheet 22 Line 13 White March 1844 56 y.o. b Tenn Limestone Pct 1 Groesbeck (city) Hart, Mary W Oct 1838 61 b NJ Whatley, Daisy I? boarder Oct 1887 12 y.o. TX William C. Hart was my gg grandfather, William Center Hart and he said that he was born in VA. I first find him in Woodbine, Whitley County, Kentucky in 1860 census. In 1870 William and his first wife Margaret Jane Carroll Hart and son John F. Hart are living with Margaret's family in Claiborne County, TN. A family Bible tells us that these additional children were born to William and Margaret: Wiley C. Hart 1872 (d. 1878 acc. to Bible) William Columbus 1874 Sarah Cathren Hart 1878 James B. Hart 1881 Albert Hart 1884 The 1880 census in Kosse Pct, Limestone Co, TX shows: Wm. Hart 36 Farmer Tenn., Margaret 29 keeping hse Ala, John 10 Tenn., Columbus 6 Tenn., Sally 2 Tenn. But by the 1900 census we find no evidence of any of these children other than William Columbus who has married in 1894 to Martha Frances Johnson. What could have happened to all my gg uncles and aunt? On March 28, 1884 Margaret Jane Carrol Hart died and is buried in Tidwell Cemetery, Limestone Co, TX. On Oct 21, 1884 W. C. Hart and Mary Overshiser were married in Limestone Co, TX. (We found the graves of Samuel T. and Mary P. Overhiser in Sc. G of the Faulkenberry Cemetery at Groesbeck, Limestone Co, TX.) (Mary P. Overhiser 10-2-1842 to 11-15-1907) (Samuel T. Overhiser 6-2-1825 to 5-30-1882). I appreciate any little thing you can tell me on this family. Other than my great grandfather (William Columbus Hart) we have totally lost all of this bunch of kids! Marcia in CA