This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOH.2ACIB/2169.1 Message Board Post: THERE IS A GOOD POSSIBILITY THAT MARY WAS A DAUGHTER OF ONE OF THE CAIN FAMILIES WHO CAME IN FROM KENTUCKY AND SETTLED IN ILLINOIS AND MO. ALL THE WAY FROM 1820 THROUGH THE 1850-60 TIME FRAME. ALL OF THESE FAMILIES THRIVED BY BEING HUNTER AND FISHERMEN AND WERE NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO THE CENSUS TAKER. (ESPECIALLY IF THEY SAW THE CENSUS TAKER FIRST.) THERE ARE SEVERAL MARRIAGE AND DIFFERENT RECORDS, BUT SORTING THEM IS A TASK, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T STAY IN ONE PLACE LONG.