This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZ.2ADE/4200.1.1.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: My Henry Summers Banks first appears in the census of Penn Yan, NY, 1850, b about 1824, in CT. According to church records, he marries Katharine CLUM (b. Germantown/Clermont, NY) and they live in or near Elmira, NY until the early 1860s, with four children, when Henry disappears from the census and business listings. (His wife remains in the area, keeps the kids, and remarries.) Henry may appear again in Ohio in the 1880 census with a new wife and child. Then he disappears completely. no Ohio death records for a Henry Summers Banks, that I have been able to find. With a middle name of Summers, he might be descended from one of the two Banks men who married Summers women. no proof found. There is in the Fairfield census a man who I think is a different Henry Banks from mine, b in Fairfield in 1824, but he seems to have spent his whole life there. Other than his wife/wives and children, I haven't been able to identify any other relatives. My personal brick wall. -- Linda,