This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CI.2ADEB/9328.1.2.1.2.3.2.1 Message Board Post: You must have some powerful magnifiers. Now that you wrote it, I could see the same thing. I wonder where the brick school house is? Did you get my message on the Frank M born in MO living in IL? I also found a F M Adams born around 1823 living in Morgan County, Richland Twp, Dist 191. wife of Mary. I believe it was on the 1870 census. It was image 22 on Ancestry. Sounds like the Franklin M Adams that Gary was talking about that was born in 1823. Also, I ran just the last name of Adams with an approximate birth date a little older that Ellen. There is an Adams, no first name, in St Louis, or it might have been in St. Charles, that was born in Missouri, father and mother born in Missouri and he was married but no spouse with him. He was working in the car factory I beleive (going on memory here. LOL!) I still think Ellen's husband was working away from the home, like in St. Louis or maybe in Sedalia or Boonville for the Railroad. If you want a kick, run the 1870 census in Pettis County, Sedalia, page by page and look at the occupations and the property worth and personal worth and then when you get near some of the boarding houses and hotels, it's all people from Ireland. It was really fasinating. Cooper County - Boonville was like that too, only I think a little richer. Mary M