Catherine: Oh, I'm looking for Frank/Francis Atwood who married Melissa Catherine Reymore (also spelled Remore, or Rima) in 1857-8ish and had a son named Lewis N. Atwood in 1858-9ish. I know, I know, you're looking at this mail and saying, Yeah, and WHERE did this happen, deb? So far, I don't know. Might have been NY, WI, MI, or, on a long shot, MO or IA. They headed to California by Wagon train, through whatever the name of the route was that took you through Salt Lake City and then through Nevada. Frank never made it to California. Family stories are VERY few and far between about that, and about him. Heck, our branch of the family didn't even know what either one of their names were until two months ago. And we're the ones descended from him. I learned their names from descendants of her second husband two months ago. He vanished before they crossed the Sierras. She had his second son in CA July of 1863. She named the baby Francis M. Atwood -- which seems to indicate to me that's a good sign he didn't abandon them, or I think she might have named him *anything* else. :) I cannot locate this small family on an 1860 census so far, cannot locate a birth record for either son in any place they were "said" to have been, cannot locate a marriage record for them in any place where family lores said they were married. So ... I'm down to scouring the likely places for likely Francis/Frank Atwoods. Grandma Melissa died with whatever secret she was keeping. >From that point forward, I can find everything right where we expect it, her second marriage, census listings for the family, everything is right on the money from 1864 to 1934 when both the sons die, Lewis here in CA, and Frank M. in AZ. So...which Frank/Francis Atwood ... is a good question. ::grin:: I have a couple NY and WI counties films on order I'm going to look at next. I just thought I'd toss a note here in case someone else had lost a Francis/Frank Atwood... :) I'm wondering if something DID happen to him out on the trail, whether it was an accident, or he did something that got himself into serious trouble, or whatever, where such records would even be. :( Are there lists of people in wagon trails, the equivalent of passenger ship lists? I look at the bright side, with so little to go on, I don't have to chase too many false leads... deb (Atwood) Christensen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - deb Christensen ([email protected]) Graphics Connection Forum http://www.computingcentral.com/topics/graphics/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [ATWOOD] Misc. Francis/Frank Atwoods > Which Francis/Frank Atwood are you looking for? > > My grandmother's cousin was Francis/Frank Atwood that wrote a book about the > Atwood family. > > I have some of the work that his nephew did. > > Francis ( Uncle Frank) was from S.D. > > > Happy Digging > Catherine Leinbach > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com now has more than 200,000 subscribers! To celebrate, > access to ALL of Ancestry.com will be free from July 18 to July 31! > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/freepromo.asp?sourcecode=A11AM >