This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Armstrong, Shimer, Ketterman, Blackford, Hamilton, Leach, Bailey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kQB.2ACIB/2541.1.1 Message Board Post: My wife's 3rd great-grandmother was Nancy Shimer. She was born circa 1833 in Indiana to Samuel & Nancy (Beer) Shimer. She married (1) George Ketterman, (2) John Blackford, (3) Jacob Hamilton, and (4) James L. Armstrong. Known or suspected children are Amanda Ketterman Leach, Julia Blackford Bailey, Jesse Blackford, John Blackford, and Frances or Charles Hamilton. She and James Armstrong were married in Jasper Co. in 1876. They were enumerated in the 1880 census in Hardin County, Iowa, and I have no record of them after that. I was hoping that the Nancy Armstrong buried in Guthrie County was Nancy Shimer; however, Iowa has no record of the death of a Nancy Armstrong from 1901-1903, so I can't tell from the death certificate.