Steve, I just got on this list. I agree this is very interesting and this should prove quite helpful for some one searching for their family. I won't find my ancestors for these dates since they didn't come to California until 1919 and 1930. Steve Illum wrote: > Married at the M.E. Church (Can someone tell me what the M.E. Church is?), > Jackson February 13, 1893 by Rev. H. Copeland. S. Dickerman to Miss Alice > Hall, both of Quartz Mountain. > > > Would this be the Methodist Episcopal Church? There is one in Ione although I think it is now a United Methodist Church. Bev