Dear Friends: I hope some of you with access to the 1830-1850 census records and with other Randolph/Rockbridge County sources can help me. I have been looking high and low for WILLIAM SILAS ANDERSON'S roots - thinking that he came from Rockbridge County to Randolph between the 1820 and 1830 census. I have discovered the 1850 census of Randolph list's him as WILLIAM L. ANDERSON ( and this is my William as the family numbers attest - he is number 70 ) and another lead to Rockbridge has completely played out. Family Genealogy has it that William Silas or L(ewis?) Anderson was the son of Robert Baxter Anderson of Rockbridge. Well, there were two Robert B Anderson's of them in Rockbridge but the middle name is BLAINE and sure enough one of them (Jr) had a William who seemed to disappear from Rockbridge at the proper time but I cannot make the connection to my William in Randolph. I have also been told that WILLIAM is listed as a son of Robert B. Anderson in the 1820 Census of Rockbridge but I cannot find it there. And both Lewis and Silas are family names. William who was living in Mingo on Indian Run in Randolph in the 1850 census sold his farm to Adam See in 1857 and went to what is now Webster County and died there in 1857. Was that area of Northern Webster(Hacker Valley/Cleveland) that bordered Randolph in 1850 indeed still a part of Randolph and thus those folks in that area of Webster included in the 1850 census of Randolph? Or was it still Braxton or Nicholas? I hope that some kind sole out there has some info that can help me track this guy's daddy. Sincerely David Anderson