This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hkB.2ACE/9298.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Julia -- Thanks again for your information. I'm not a descendent [more about that later], but I have learned quite a bit about the children of Reuben Sanford and Mary Wood Sanford. As you will see, I have been particularly interested in the son you saw on the 1860 Census with Mary identified as "Henry." You state that you believe that Reuben Sanford died in 1846 in Williamson County. Indeed, my information is that he died in 1846 in Nolensville in Williamson County. I have been told by a descendant [more about her later too] that the rest of the family moved to Milam County, Texas, in 1854. I have identified Reuben and Mary Sanford's children as follows: -- Archer Wood Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1820. He was married twice: first to a woman named Sarah Brown, and then in 1850 two a woman named Mary Ann Wood. The relationship of Mary Ann Wood to Archer's mother Mary Wood is unknown. Archer and Mary Sanford appear in the 1860 census of Milam County with their children, Henry, born 1853; and Atry, born about 1858. -- John T. Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee, December 1822. He married a woman named Nancy T. Hay, on December 5, 1855. They moved to Burnet County Texas. -- Lucretia Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1825. She married a man named Hale P. Hazard. They appear in 1880 census of Milam County Texas with Lucretia's nephew Daniel H. Sanford who went on to become a very prominent citizen of Milam County. -- Reuben Henry Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee, April 1832, died Milam County Texas 30 June 1910. this is the son who appears as "Henry" with Mary Wood Sanford in the 1860 census of Milam County. He appears in subsequent censuses under alternate names of Reuben and Henry.he was married twice. His first wife was named Catherine (last name unknown) who died in Milam County sometime between 1860 and 1870. They had a daughter named Susan who was born in 1862. He then married a woman named Martha Minor in 1871. They had two daughters together, Sallie, born 1872; and Catherine, born in 1877. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee, about 1834. She married a man named George W. Thompson. Their children were: Sarah Francis Eliza Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1855; James P. S. Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1857; George T. Sanford, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1862; Moses G. Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1865; William T. Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1867; Sidney Sanford born Williamson County Tennessee about 1869; J. M. Sanford, a daughter, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1873;AG Sanford, a son, born Williamson County Tennessee about 1877. -- Reuben and Mary also had two other daughters than I have only been able to identify as "Daughter A" born about 1826-1830; and "Daughter B" born about 1835. As I mentioned above I am not a descendant of Reuben and Mary Sanford. However, among the four slaves that appear in the early censuses with Reuben's family was a man named William born in Virginia about 1810. When Reuben's family moved to Milam County in 1854, William went with them. After emancipation and he took the surname Sanford. William Sanford is my second great-grandfather. He died in Milam County Texas in 1916 at age 106. He is the oldest person buried in the city Cemetery in Rockdale Texas. I also mentioned that I knew a descendant of Reuben and Mary. I had posted a query on a note or site and got a reply from a woman named Sharon. Sharon said that (1) Reuben and Mary's youngest daughter, the one I have identified as "Daughter B," was her great-grandmother; and (2) Reuben Henry's second wife Martha, was the sister of Reuben Henry's brother-in-law "James" and that this James was Sharon's great-great-grandfather. For various reasons I have lost contact with Sharon but if you e-mail me I will pass along an e-mail address I have for her and perhaps you will have luck communicating with her.