Merrot Cave married Fannie Geary on June 23, 1872 in Pettis County, Missouri Merritt H. Cave married Jennie Swisher October 16, 1877 in Brown County Illinois He is found residing in Butler and St. Clair County Missouri in the 1860 and 1880 Census. Meritt H. Cave married Mary Ann Earles on May 14, 1861 in St. Clair County, Missouri. (The Merrit H. Cave who married Jennie Swisher would have only been about 11 in 1861, so was it his father who may have remarried?) Merritt H. Cave married Catherine Rush b 1817, on June 21, 1835 in Monroe County Missouri. Are these the parents of Meritt H. Cave who married Jennie Swisher, and who may have remarried to Mary Ann Earles in 1861?) Merit Cave married Mary Ann Duncan on March 18, 1874 in Hickory County Missouri Here is the problem. The Meritt H. Cave who married Jennie Swisher in Brown County in 1877 can not help me find their parents. The original marriage certificate is not at the Court House, but is only found in the marriage record books. The Census of 1860 and 1880 of Butler County and St. Clair County Missouri leads me to believe that Merritt H. Cave who married Catherine Rush are the parents of Merit H. Cave who married Jennie Swisher. But that leaves me with the huge question about all these Merit Cave individuals who married within that time period. So what I am hoping and praying for is that somebody on the lists has researched this area of Missouri and might have some bit of missing information that will help me. If you have a missing link to a Cave family line in the Midwest, you might very well find it within this area. Thomas