Hi Kim! I don't really have anything new except for refinements. I did go to the national archives yesterday and pulled the agricultural schedule of the 1850, 1860 and 1880 census--so we can now see exactly what Samuel Moore had on his farm. It has been a difficult road attempting to trace Samuel Moore's roots in Scott County, VA. The petition to form Scott County was submitted by 287 people in 1814; it was approved in November 1814, but the county didn't actually begin functioning as a county until January 4, 1815 according to a Scott County History book I read. So, if Samuel was born in 1814...it would have been on the preceding land of Lee, Russell or Washington Counties in VA. There were only 3 possible matches in the census of 1820 who were Moores who had children of the age of Samuel then (only heads of household were listed then along with a tally of number of persons by age range). Those three names of possible fathers are Joel, Henry and Samuel Moore. There was also a Samuel Moore who signed a number of the deeds in Scott County--so, I'm attempting to find out about him there. Since it was so early, the records are scant. It is becoming a process of elimination. Recently, I've seen family trees of Joel and Henry that don't list Samuel as a son...so, I'm focusing in on Samuel as a possible match as Samuel Moore's father for now. But given the county formation date...it is extremely difficult. Also, death records are not available for 1879-1890 for Martin County. All this because the laws were on again and off again concerning death records at the time...so, no extra help about Samuel there in seeing additional data about where he was born. In early census data, he lists Virginia as his birthplace. In later census data, he lists Kentucky (not sure if this was just lack of interest in clarity or not). He also says his father was from Virginia and his mother was from Kentucky....anyhow....that's what I have for now...other than the children I've already listed. There will be more to come when I get this old baptist preacher's oral history entered....