This helps a bunch. I know he was a baptist missionary in Phillips County in 1854. As I've said I found a Andrew J. Merrell on the 1850 AR,Lawrence, Spring River, Image 6 on Ancestry.com as age 17, Elizabeth, age 11, James, age 9, Otto B., age 6 and Green L., age 1. (Green was born 3/5/1849 assume AR and died 3/40/1933 in TX. Do you think this might be the same person that you have married to Elizabeth Word? Thanks so much for your reply.