This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bishop, Hamrick, Alford, Barnett Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/251.335 Message Board Post: I got in on the tale end of this discussion.....I guess I received the message because of the San Saba Texas reference. (my family was from there also....Hamrick, Alford, Barnetts etc.) I am not familiar with your fam. names, but I have a copy of the transcribed 1870 San Saba Census and see the following info. Hope it is of some help to you and the others researching this Bishop line? Let me know if you want other names looked up on the 1870 or 1880 census in San Saba Co. Texas. I did not see any Arants on either census. July 24th, 1870 San Saba Co. Census Family # 156 BISHOP, E.B. age 50 Blacksmith b. Tenn. wife Jane age 55 b. Tenn. male Richard age 21 farming b. Ark. female July C. age 19 keeping house b. Tex. male Wm. W. age 11/12 born in July in Tex. FAMILY # 157 BISHOP, Benj. age 27 Blacksmith b. Tenn wife Naoma age 26 keeping house b. Tenn male Justin age 15 at school b. Ark. female Sarah J. age 13 at school b. Ark. female Elizabeth age 11 at home b. Ark female Melinda age 9 at home b. Tex male John age 4 at home b. Tex male Richard age 2 at home b. Tex. There were no Bishops on the 1880 San Saba Co. Census.