This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/928.1.1 Message Board Post: MAK--I wonder the same thing--can that many children vanish into thin air??? I have found a deed dated May 1873 where John Cannon sold part of a 40 acre parcel to George Dinger, then at a later date another deed signed by John Cannon and wife (she signed her name as "BELONA") and a still later deed where John sold the remainder of the original 40 acre parcel to George Dinger. On this later deed John was listed as a "single man". When I was researching the Cannons at that time I was only interested in finding the gravesite location, which as you know from the info I "snail mailed" to you, I suceeded in doing. Now it appears I need to retrace my steps to get specific dates on these deeds and try to establish a more accurate timeline. I acquired the family info that I quoted from the Monroe County Local History Room where the 1860 census had been transcribed and I wonder if the difference between BELONA AND BELENA could have occured in the transcription??