Cousins, I have another mystery for you. I've been going through the 1880 Census (LDS transcription) and I found a Mary Yelton in Columbia County, Washington Territory. She's 74 years old, a widow, and the census states that she was born in North Carolina and both her parents were born in South Carolina. The LDS transcription shows her as in the same household with M.G. Hagaman. I looked at the actual census on ancestry.com, and discovered that they actually in separate households, although immediately adjacent in the census. (This is the one flaw I've discovered in the LDS transcription. It doesn't give dwelling or family numbers, and sometimes it shows people as in the same household when they are not, or in separate households when they are actually in the same one.) M. G. Hagaman is male, age 40, and married, although he's alone in the census. He's also shown as born in NC. I have the 1850 NC census on CD, so I looked at that, and the only Hagamans or Hagermans I found were in Watauga County, NC. That's really interesting, because there was a Yelton family in Watauga County. And it has a Mary of the right age, Mary Ellen Ford who married Barnet Yelton. She moved with most of her children back to NC about 1847 when her husband died in Tennessee. The last record I have of her in NC is the 1870 Census for Watauga County. But if this is her, what on earth was she doing in Washington Territory, living in a household by herself? I can account for most of her children, and there is no connection with the Hagaman/Hagerman family that I know of. There's one daughter Susan A., who was born ca. 1836 and that I have nothing on. There's also an older daughter whose name I don't even know, but she was probably too old to have married a man born in 1840. Any thoughts??? Cheryl