In a message dated 5/1/99 5:50:04 AM, you wrote: >Malissia Blake wife of J. A. Cady B - 1853 - D - 1846 I've learned that folks back then tended to marry people they knew from family connections. Maude Isma Hazard, b. 3 July 1889 in Box Butte Co., Nebraska, daughter of Jessie A. CADY and John Polk Hazard, married J. D. BLAKE in Bismark, (N or S?) Dakota.