I am researching a Tallahatchie County, MS family who appeared in Charleston tax records as early as 1841. Specifically, I am looking for anyone who has data on Dionysius and Eliza Ann (Golden) Burkhalter. He married Eliza in 1837, but I don't know where. I know Dionysius was born in 1802 in Edgefield, SC to Jeremiah and Lydia (Stevens) Burkhalter. I know Dionysius died in Charleston, MS in 1855. I also believe that Eliza was a second or third wife. I know she was the mother of the 4 daughters who appeared with them on the 1850 Tallahatchie census: Mary Elizabeth, Ann H. (who married John B.Sutton in 1857), Amanda Jane, and Martha S. Reuben Golden, who I believe was Eliza Ann's father, also was noted in their household. I also suspect that Dionysius' oldest children by a first wife were named: Abraham C., Alexander S., William F., Isaac, and Perry Burkhalter. Here is my problem: I can not find this Burkhalter family in AL or MS in the 1840 census. I can't find Dionysius' siblings either, but heard they lived in AL (not sure of the county), that they did not move with Dionysius to MS. I am trying to confirm what I have and learn anything new about this Burkhalter family, especially where they were in 1840.