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I do not know why you are having a problem with them having had a William, born about 1854.
I do not have the 1870 census on them, but it is also very plausible that this William had died by the 1880 census, maybe even by the 1870 census.
I can safely say that over 90% of the people buried back then, were buried with a wooden cross at their graves, and those crosses faded with the years. The people of that era, knew how hard it was to just live each day, and didn't place that much emphasis on THINGS. We with our THINGS, have little if any concept of what it was like just to put a meal on the table, to go visit a family member or even a neigbor.
To know what I am talking about on the following little story, if we looked at a clock, Dyer Co. would be the 12, Haywood would be the 3, Tipton would be the 6, and Lauderdale would be the center of the clock, where the hands are attached.
I was reading in one of the issues of the Lauderdale Co., TN Enterprise, that a man from the northern part of Lauderdale Co., not too far from the Dyer county line, had driven his horse and wagon down to Tipton Co., to bring his daughter home for a visit. She had been married for almost 10 years, and she had not been home since she got married. Anyway, on the trip back to Lauderdale Co., the horse went off the road, and the wagon over turned and both the father and his daughter were killed.
Try to think of how often we just jump in our cars, and drive 50 to 100 miles and think nothing about it. Nothing to it. There was that young woman, married almost ten years, and not even able to go to the next county and visit her parents.
I get so frustrated when people complain that "There should be a grave stone for my (what ever the person was)!!!"
My late husband was from Lauderdale Co., and after our marriage, we went back down there, and started buying grave markers for all of his ancestors. There was not a single one. Understandable, they were struggling just to get through the day, and put a little food on the table. As I tell people now, when they piss and moan about putting thousands of dollars into a grave and marker, "Ain't no one at home".
My parents were creamated, my husband was creamated, just in February my 20 year old granddaughter was creamated, and I will be when my time comes.
To further help you in your future research, please remember these rules of Enumerators. (Those are the people who rode around and took the information to place on the census pages.)
1 - Until the 1900 census, it had to be a man.
2 - He had to use # 10 Black Ink. (Sometimes when his ink started getting short, he would water it down, to make it last further. This is why some of the census images are so hard to read. The ink that was watered down, had faded with the years.)
3 - He was not allowed to ask the householder, how to spell any of the name/s. Not the family name or the individual name. (The government did not want the householder to feel stupid, if he or she could not even spell their own name. This is why there are so many spellings of a name. It was the enumerator who spelled it like it sounded to him. Thus the SOUND-EX indexing system.)
4 - Anyone who was at the household at the time of his visit could answer the questions. (If the parents were out in the fields working, the children could give the answers to the questions. Just how much FACT would those children know.)
5 - If no one was at home, then the enumerator had the right to ask the questions of a neighboring householder. (Just how much does the average neighbor know about his/her neighbor.)
6 - As time went on, boundaries changed and counties, even states lines changed. (Be flexible with this.)
A lady I know, was very smart, and started asking questions of her ancestors long before this became a popular pastime, and she was talking to one of her great grand parents, and he told her, that his property, was "up the side of the hill, and it was difficult to get to, even in the best of time." That in the rain, it was almost impossible to get to (had to be in the south with the clay soil), and during the snow, you were cabin bound. Anyway, he told her that no census taker had visited him for over thirty years. When the lady was later able to view census images of him, she was amazed to see information on him. It seems that his neighbor at the bottom of the hill, filled the enumerator in.
In short, the census is a fantastic rule of thumb, but as the old saying goes, "it is not written in stone". The information is very important, but it is not 100% correct. Once again, BE FLEXIBLE.
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