Mordecai was on the 1850 Monroe County Cencus with his parents: Jesse Atkins age 55 Betsy Atkins age siblings: Nancy Francis 1840 mrd Squire Herndon 2d marriage Mary A Atkins 1842 mrd J.D. Garland John Atkins 1844 William Atkins 1846 Mordecai Atkins 1849 They dont show up on a Cencus until 1880 in Tallahatchie Co Miss,Harrison Station(now Enid) Would love an Obit search of Monroe County to see if Mordecai passed as an infant I do believe they were in Monroe county in 1860 because Nancy Francis Atkins married Squire Herndon in that County abt 1864/5. The Herndons also moved to Tallahatchie Co Miss and are in the 1880 Cencus.