This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sheaffer; Disbrow Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XY.2ADE/809 Message Board Post: I've been stumped on finding the father of an ancestor, so I need some help to see if any church records exist, the only problem is I don't know which church. Here's what I have. I'm hoping that the church might have more recrods. Roy Alfred Sheaffer married Addie May Disbrow Sept 1, 1897 in Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado. They were married by a Cleryman. So I'm thinking they were married in a church. The cleryman's name is M.D. Hornback(not sure on last name, can't find a similiar name in the 1880 census) I've attached a copy of the license. Does the Clergyman's name or a similiarty ring anything for anyone? So I might find an affiliation at least Witness's were Charles & Florence Disbrow (her brother and sister) Royal was born in about 1875, the problem is he was the first born son and by the 1880 census is father had already died. He had one sister Clare/Clara. His death certificate does not list parents names either. I got lucky and his mother was buried next to him in the cemetery and his internment record made reference to her.. Taylor county has no record of a marriage for her there to a Sheaffer.. only the Flummer one, and her obituary makes no mention of it either, and neither does her death certificate. She was a teacher for 22 years so also trying to find her teaching records Royal's mother was Elizabeth Crawford (Sheaffer, Flummer, Pettit 3 husbands) and I've managed to trace her further back. She came from Abingdon, Illinois. from what I know Royal was born in Iowa. The 1880 Census has them in Clayton, Taylor County, Iowa.