Thomas Childress, m. to 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 I'm looking for the parents of my great grandmother, Louisa Childress / Childers? (b. 1829, TN).Louisa married in Benton Co, in 1845 to James Yarbrough.
I realize that if Thomas and Mary were her parents she would have been married and moved out of the house 5 years before that 1850 census was taken BUT the reason I am interested in this is that her marriage record shows that she was married BY Elijah Alsup.
Elijah Alsup is household #824 and Thomas and Mary were household # 825 - on the 1850 Benton Co, TN census. I feel like there must be a connection.
James and Louisa Yarbrough moved to AR around 1854 and are buried in Johnson Co.
Loeta Venable