This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Willoughby, Carpenter, Brewster Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/558.562.699.1.1 Message Board Post: I think Mary Jane was actually Nancy Jane, at least she was Nancy J. Brewster when she married William J. Willoughby in 1877 and is Nancy J. wife of William J. Willoughby in the 1880 and 1900 censuses. Data posted to the Clay Co. archives say that she was the daughter of James Carpenter and Sarah Harlen, and it was in the home of Sarah Carpenter that Nancy and William married in 1877. Just today, a friend of mine who is a descendant of William and Nancy opened up a framed picture of a couple said to have been the parents of Charlie Willoughby, and, in my friend's father's handwriting it said that the people were William J. Willoughby and Nancy Carpenter Willoughby. Charlie is their son in the 1900 Clay Co. census, and he is my friends great grandfather. Do you have more on the ancestors of Nancy's parents James and Sarah? Regards, Jim Rice