Bette, in your web-searching, can you find the 1840 census for Maxfield ME and the 1850 Howland ME (5 mi east of Maxfield? Also 1850 census Lodi WI. And 1857 special census Mankato MI and 1860 cs Winona MI. The 1972 binder publication shows Francis' wife as HOA CLAPP in these census. The 1965 publication, pg 127, shows his wife as DOE JOY in those same censuses. I wonder whether there were two wives? Mary-Gene