This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams/Potter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CI.2ADEB/9328.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Okay, I found that but, my Francis M Adams married Ellen Potter Sept 1870. Their first child was born abt 1872. I have the marriage license. I have one of the sons death certificate which shows he was born in Idaho (although all the census show he was born in Missouri) I figured Francis would have to be in the area at least near the time he was married. The 1870 census for Morgan County was taken in August and the marriage occured in September. The only close one I could find was a Franklin Adams living close by. Francis was not with the family in 1880. Ellen is living with her father, again in Morgan County, with four children. In 1900 she is listed as a widow but has had three more children. All children have the last name of Adams. The death certificate of Samuel is one of the children that was born in the later time period. He was born in 1883. How can Francis dissapear? I checked all the surrounding counties because the Potter family and the Cramer's were in Co! oper and Pettis Counties also, along with Adams. They are all in the family. There was a lot of Railroad construction in both counties, tons of people, I still have a few townships to go through in Pettis County. I do it page by page. I did all of Morgan and did all of Cooper. I don't even have a clue how old this Francis was. I can't connect him to the one Gary said lived in Boone County unless he dumped his wife with the kids and married Ellen, or married twice at the same time and kept both. I guess anything is possible.
Tmary, In 1930, my mother was the census enumerator for an area close to where we lived. I have a copy of all the pages. Included was a camp of men who were working on the railroad. They were mostly from other states. Perhaps they were a crew that went from place to place to work. Your Adams could have been a member of a similar group of men who were away from home some of the time. Maxine