This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WCE.2ACIB/970.2 Message Board Post: Ralph: Catherine "Kate" Lipscomb, dau. of Ambrose Lipscomb (1762-1841) and his wife Winifred (Mardis) Lipscomb (c.1768-1847) was their only child born in what is now Preston County, W. Va. (7 were born in Frederick Co., Va. and one was born in Loudoun Co.). Catherine is said to have died in childbirth in 1842 and her husband William L. Biggs in the 1850 Census is found living with a presumed 2nd wife named Elizabeth, age 31 (thus born abt. 1819, whereas Catherine Lipscomb was born 1808). The children by Catherine are NOT living with them (they are listed with their paternal grandparents). A pretty compelling argument. And yet.......1) there is no record of a 2nd marriage for Wm. L. Biggs, 2) that the children are staying with their grandparents does not necesarily mean that their mother is dead, 3) ages in census records are often far wide of the mark, 4) this Elizabeth was born in W. Va. - as was Catherine, 5) West Virginians seem to delight in using their 1st and middl! e names interchangably, and 6) she had two nieces named Catherine Elizabeth Lipscomb - might they have been named after her FULL name? This is all speculation, of course. There were 3 children by this supposed 2nd wife Elizabeth: Sarah (b. 1844) m. a Mr. Plum (no other data that I know of); Alcinda Jane (1847-1916) m. Samuel V. Loughry of Tucker County, W. Va. They had 15 children - several of whom have intermarried with Lipscombs! Unfortunately, Alcinda's death record does not give her mother's name; the 3rd child was Emma Caroline Biggs (1848-?), who m. her 1st cousin Joseph Harrison Biggs (b. 1854 - I have an un-verified date of death of 1890). They had at least 6 children. Conclusion: if someone can locate Emma's death record (if her husband died in 1890, she may have re-married), it MIGHT have her mother's maiden name noted and THAT would clear up once and for all just who this Elizabeth really was. Their last (?)child George E. H. Biggs was born & died 1888 in Gr! ant Co., Va. Any help would be much appreciated.