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/9328.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm not sure where Francis was in 1880, either. It appears that he married a Sophia Ann Scott on Nov 26, 1850, but there are postings on the LDS website listing 1857 and Nov 26, 1866 as marriage dates. I don't think the 1866 is correct, because the 1880 census shows a Sophia Adams living in Moniteau County, MO in the home of her daughter and son-in-law, William and Sarah Elizabeth Coleman. Also in the house are Sophia's children Fanney, Alice, and William Adams, and the age for Fanney (24) would put her birthdate around 1856 or so. The LDS webpage transcription does not show a marital status for any of the Adamses, and I don't have access to the census image, so that's a mystery to me. Check your personal e-mail, I'm sending an image of a transcription of the will of Francis' father James, with notes added by a researcher unknown to me.