Thomas Childress, w. Mary, 1850 census, Benton Co, TN
I am interested in knowing about Thomas Childress, a. 66 (b. S. C.) on the 1850 Benton County, TN. census.He is shown married to Mary a. 50.(They also have a dau Roxanah, age 16).
The reason I am interested is that my great grandmother, Louisa Childress / Childers? (b. 1829, TN) married in Benton Co, in 1845.I don't know who her parents were.She married James Yarbrough.
I realize that this means she was married and moved out of the house 5 years before the 1850 census was taken but her marriage record shows that she was married BY Elijah Alsup.The 1850 census shows Elijah Alsup is household #824 and Thomas and Mary were household # 825.
On the 1880 census, Louisa says her father was born in TN but I feel like there must be a connection.
Loeta Venable