This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SANFORD, WOOD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9298.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much for the additional information. Most of my info agrees with yours. I did not have a Lucretia listed as a daughter, but if she married before the 1850 census, that might explain that. I do have a daughter named Sarah Frances Sanford b. ca 1825 who married Allen J. Davis. They had 5 children and both died in Milam Co., TX. Mary Jane Davis was born 1829 in TN and married Stephen M. Davis. They had 7 children and died in Milam Co., TX. I do not have a Margaret Elizabeth who married a Thompson but I do have an Elizabeth T. who married James H. Holtzclaw 2/4/1857 in MIlam Co., TX. I also have a Martha Ann Sanford born 1830 in TN. I have no further info on her. I do not have any info on the parents of Reuben Sanford who died in 1846. However, the father of Mary (Polly) Wood was Johnson Wood. (His wife was Frances Thompson but I have no further info on her.) Johnson Wood was a member of Wilson Creek Bapt. Church in Triune TN. I do know that this church had members of both races and the church records are available from the LDS on a microfilm #0987750. I have a transcription of his Will and the inventory of his estate, dated June term 1845, Williamson Co., TN. There are 20 slaves named but the only William was about 4 years old. His Will states: "it is further my will and desire that for the dutiful ____ and faithful services rendered to me in my old age by my negro woman Dicey that she be set free and I wish my Executors to attend to same". The other slaves were to be divided amongst his children. There was a later suit which mentions that some of the slaves had belonged to Johnson's children's grandfather (I don't know whether this! is their Wood or Thompson grandfather). Johnson Wood's father was Stephen Wood who died in 1781 in Lunenburg Co., VA. I have a very short synopsis of his Will which does not mention the slaves by name. My guess is that William came with the Sanford family rather than the Wood family. We could probably trace him through the Williamson Co., Archives, which is in the basement of the old Post Office Bldg, in downtown Franklin. It's possible the Sanford family also went to Wilson Creek Church. I'll dig some more to see if I have anything else which might be relevant. If you want the names of Johnson's slaves or copies of any of the material I have, I would be happen to get it to you. Julia