This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFC.2ACI/1585.1 Message Board Post: The 1880 census has a Jacob C. "Cary" in Stanton Twp, Dunn Co. with wife Eva M. and children Idella M. and John. It says he was born in Penn, as were his parents. This is not always correct, depending on who actually gave the census taker the information. The 1870 census for Penn. has a Jacob Carey, b. 1843: Name: Jacob Carey Age in 1870: 26 Estimated Birth Year: 1843 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Bullskin, Fayette, Pennsylvania Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: View Image Post Office: Pennsville Roll: M593_1342 Page: 40 Image: 82 Year: 1870 He is married to an Elizabeth, age 18 at this time. ---------------- >From Wisconsin Land Records: Name: JACOB C CAREY Land Office: EAU CLAIRE Sequence #: 1 Document Number: 3797 Total Acres: 160 Misc. Doc. Nr.: 504 Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: May 09, 1891 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Statutory Reference: 12 Stat. 392 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: May 20, 1862 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Homestead Entry Original ------------------- Could this be your Jacob C. Carey in the Civil War records? Name: Jacob C. Carey Company: D Unit: 148 Pennsylvania Inf. Rank - Induction: Private Rank - Discharge: Corporal Allegiance: Union It probably is since his wife Eva M. received a pension Jan. 22, 1900. His Civil War record might have his parents names. Linda