1830 Surry Co, NC. The census that year recorded him at age 20-30and h is bride was the same. No one else lived in the house andneighbors we re unfamiliar names.
8/9/1850 S Div, Surry Co, NC. By that census, Obediah's family hadgr own immensely. He was 48, a farmer, and living with him wereElizabeth , 38, Lucinda, 13, Thomas, 12, Nancy J, 8, Elizabeth, 6,John 4, and Ja mes, 7 mo. They lived between John and Sarah Vanhoy,probably Elizabet h's mother, where Obediah's 78 year old mother alsolived.
