____________________________________ Hi Cindy, Today is the first time I have been home long enough to look at notes. The sheet you sent on the family of George Washington Bottorff agrees completely with the 1850 Clark County, Indiana census, family #247. George is 42, farmer, born in Ky. Elizabeth is 37, born in Ky. There are 9 children in the household. The names and ages agree with the sheet you sent. On the sheet for William F. Bottorff, I agree that he was the father of Allie who was the 3rd wife of John Bottorff. I feel sure she is the spinster cousin Mrs. Ballensky heard about when she was a young woman. After John Wesley Bottorff died, Allie was living alone and next door to John ’s son, David, in the 1920 census. Her father was living close to them. I have some census records where Allie and a couple of the kids were still at home, but I did not have all of the children’s names. Thanks for that additional information. On the John Wesley Bottorff chart, I know he first married Jane Reed in 1857 in Clark County, Indiana. I think they moved to Wapello County, Iowa to live next door to Jane’s folks. Both families were living next door to each other in the 1860 census. I believe all of John’s children were by Jane before she died. Mrs. Ballensky told me she talked to a very old relative who said Thomas was a baby when Jane died. She died of a massive heart attack while she was holding Thomas on her lap. I was not able to find a marriage record for John and Emeline. They must have married some time between 1874 when Jane died and 1880 when the census was taken. I tried to find a census where Emeline was still living at home. She would have been about 25 in 1870, but I did not find her listed. Zelpha Ray told me her records show that Emeline’s maiden name was Mowery. I could find nothing under that name either. I did find a Walter McMullen family living in Keokuk Co. in 1920 with Emery Bottorff, a son-in-law, in the household. I have no idea if Emeline could be a part of that family. Walter was just 46 in 1920 so he would be too young to be Emeline’s father. I just thought it was interesting that there is a connection to the Bottorff family. I thought perhaps if I could trace the family of Elizabeth Graves, John’s first wife, it might lead us to information as to whom John’s father might be. Zelpha says she is fairly sure her records are correct. She shows John Bottorff who married Elizabeth Graves, then Emeline, and then Allie as the son of Jacob Joseph Bottorff. In case you don’t already have it, I will forward a copy of her chart. In a previous note she told me she thought John Bottorff was the son of Andrew Bottorff. She doesn’t say where she got this information, but she says everything I have is definitely wrong. I have been under the impression John Bottorff and Elizabeth Graves divorced after 1840. It may have been before that, but there is a John Bottorff in the 1840 Clark County, Indiana census. I thought he was the same John Bottorff who married Lucinda and lived out his life in Washington County, Indiana. Elizabeth married Jacob Deuser in 1845 and had several other children making them half brothers and sisters to John Wesley Bottorff I know David and Thomas Deuser moved to Wapello County, Iowa and lived with or near John in some of the census records. Zelpha says they moved from Wapello County, Iowa to Kentucky where she thinks the older John Bottorff lived. I find it hard to believe they would move to Kentucky to live near their mother’s first husband when they were not related to him in any way. She said they later moved back to Clark County, Indiana where Elizabeth and Jacob Deuser died. Patsy **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)