This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Biggs, Rutledge, Skinner, Ansel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WCE.2ACIB/863.2 Message Board Post: Lousia Ann Biggs was the daughter of Thomas Biggs (c. 1788 - aft 1860) and probably Mary Griffiths. Both were born in Pennsylvania. They were married in Perry Co. Ohio (18 JAN 1831) where Louisa Ann (June 29, 1834 - 1899), was born. She had an elder half-brother Robert R. Biggs (1824-1906), a younger brother Joseph MacDowell Biggs (July 11, 1837- April 14, 1912), who married Mahala Ansel, and a younger sister, May or Mary E. born around 1840. In the 1850 census for Clayton Township, Perry Co., she is living at home with her parents. Louisa and William move to Iowa sometime around 1863-64. The 1880 census lists them in Marshall, Taylor Co. Iowa. living with Kate 19 (and teaching school), Alice 17, Abraham 16, Thomas 11, and Edward 9. Louisa appears to have died in Sharpsburg Iowa and William in 1920 in Missouri. I found this family while trying to find out more about my Great Grandfather Robert R. - also without a clue about his second wife, and my great grandmother Catherine Rutledge, whom I now suppose to be related to the family that Louisa, his half-sister, married into. Any further information concerning this family would be appreciated.