This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells McSpadden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4412.1 Message Board Post: In the 1850 census the family was in Washington Township, Jackson County, Missouri listed as follows (apparently Franklin hadn't been born yet) Washington Wells 32 b: VA Margaret Wells 28 b: VA Mary Wells 9 b: VA Charles Wells 4 b: MO Samuel Wells 2 b: MO Rachael Wells 19 b: VA (probably sister of GW) In the 1860 census this is a "T". The "P" was written quite differently by this enumerator. If you were not aware, this family is descended from Zachariah Wells and Abigail Osborne of Lee/Wise County Virginia. This is family W020 in our Wells DNA study although I don't think we have tested a descendent of George Washington Wells. I know of one though.