This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4440.1 Message Board Post: I found them in 1850 in Laurens Co., SC, (with an additional unnamed 4-month-old daughter), but couldn't find them in 1860. In 1870 they are in Pontotoc and in 1880 in Union County. I think the parents must have died between 1880 and 1900; they were pretty old by then. In Wallerville Baptist Church Cemetery in Union County, MS: H. P. Wells, September 24 1848 - March 25 1908 Cora Wells, no dates William D. Wells, died March 5 1887 Henry P's birth year is probably around 1840. He was 10 years old on the 1850 census. All their birth dates vary a lot from census to census