Subj: Moses/Ann in 1880 Calhoun Co. census.  Moses/Nancy in 1860 Greene Co., etc.

John and Troie,

     I am sorry to report that I was not able to obtain Amanda B.'s and
Daniel's death certificates today.  A search was made in Montgomery,
but they were unable to locate them.  I went by the Genealogy Center
and located Moses and Annie on the Calhoun l880 Census, which reads as
follows:

     Moses Ashley           Age 66           B. SC
          Annie                         31                SC
               LaDove                 15                 AL 
               Moses                  12                  AL
              Robert O or P        10                  AL

     On the Soundex Index it looked like Robert P.--a very fat P.  On  the
Census it looked like a fat O.  Anyway LaDove and Robert have  picked
up another brother that we didn't know about--another Moses!!   Did you
realize  that there was a 35 year difference in Moses and annie's ages?

     Tom Mullins called me today from the Anniston Library.  He said that he 
looked at the l870 Greene County Census in the Forkland Post Office
area.   This is where Moses resided in the l860 Greene County Census. 
He said he was  able to read every frame and did not see Moses listed,
nor was he listed in  the l870 Census Index.  He said that he checked
the l870 census indexes in  Mississippi and Georgia, and Moses was not
listed on them.  One of the at the  librarians at the Genealogy Center
told me that it could be that they (Moses)  were not home the day the
census taker came to visit.  I still think they  were in Greene County
in 1970.  Again, they were in Greene County when Robert  was born in
l869, and they paid taxes on their land in Greene County in 1974.   Tom
Mullins said he found a lot of information on Moses and Annie, but he 
could not find anything on Amanda B.  The information that he found on
Moses  is information that I already have--census and marriage records. 
He said he  did find a Marriage record for Annie and a J. C. Ross in
l884, one year after  Moses's death.  He also has an article where
Annie and her son Moses were  fined $l00 for selling "shinny."  He is
sending me the article.


     The l960 Greene County Census reads as follows:
            Moses Ashley            Age  46      B. SC      Occupation - 
Planter
                 N. R. Ashley                 28           AL     Sex F
                  J. B. Ashley                 l2            Al      Sex M
                  S. A. Ashley                  6           AL     Sex F
                   R. M. Ashley                 1           Al      Sex F
     Note:  R. M. Ashley was Rebecca M., she was born in l859.

     I found the following in the Genealogy Center today:          January
l9, l88l, Wednesday--"Excerps of Tuscaloosa Times, l88l -  l886 Vol. I,
" Married by Rev. James C. Foster at the residence of Mr. Joseph 
Ashley, December 23, Mr O. N. Holmes and Miss Rebecca Kirksey - all of
this  county."      Could this be Joseph, the son of Moses?  This is
the first time I have  run across a Joseph Ashley, other than in the
census.


Nettie