Virginia, even though the 1850 Census cites Coleman as being 60 years old, he was really 40 years old as he m. Ann Lewis on 27 Dec 1834 as being 24 years old....In the 1860 Census, he was 51 years old. so we have 3 different dates for him, 60 in 1850, 51 in 186 and 24 in 1834. Nancy In a message dated 5/14/00 7:53:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, VAPITTSY-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 07:44:58 -0500 From: "James Baxter" <jbaxter@myriad.net> To: VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000601bfbda2$38d99b40$3f03b4d0@default> Subject: [VAPITTSY-L] Re: Coleman H. Shelton, b. 1790, in Pittsy 1850 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I believe that record should read: Coleman H. Scruggs 60 Ann Scruggs 33 John Scruggs 13 Henry Scruggs 11 Eliza Scruggs 8 Benjamin Scruggs 6 Robert Scruggs 4 Sarah Scruggs 1 Virginia Baxter jbaxter@myriad.net >>