Hi Pat- Thank you for the info on Hannah. > Re HANNAH (RICHARDSON) BLANCHARD, wife of Levi J. [c1823- - Levi died 13 Oct , 1865.Smithfield RI > Hannah was born in Whiting, Washington, ME to George & Nancy > Richardson [see Coventry, RI Record of Marriages 1850-1900, > p 17 which records the 1860 marriage of Hannah & Levi.] They were married 3 June 1860 after his first wife died ( we think abt 1857) from census records > --About Levi's children: In Bristol Co., MA probates is a > guardianship record for Josephine, dau of Levi & Hannah dated > 2 Oct 1871: Levi, late of Smithfield, RI: widow Hannah, now > dec'd. Her siblings: George H. Blanchard, Melissa "G." Tucker, > wife of Roscoe L. B., Levi C. & John R. Blanchard, all of > Attleborough, MA; & Mary E. Blanchard, of Warwick, RI. Does it say who Josephine's guardian was? Mary Melissa ( G stands for first husband --- Gould) Tucker Roscoe L. B. Tucker? Any info on him? > [Presumably this guardianship was for the purpose of handing on > property owned or newly inherited by the widow Hannah. No > guardian was appointed for her minor siblings--all children of > Levi & his first wife. For anyone who may be interested, Levi's first wife and mother of all five children was Ruth Wilcox, daughter of Jonathan Wilcox. We have yet to find his ancestry. > -->CHECK for a Richardson probate in Bristol Co., MA [possibly > for a parent or for one of Hannah's siblings who died without > heirs. Will do- Again thanks for the post- My dad has lots of info I hope to get on here regarding extraneous lines- BTW- this is the Moses line from William, RI Sue in Buffalo