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/TmQ.2ACIB/2126.1 Message Board Post: I assume you meant they md. in 1896 not 1886? I think this might be your Emery and family in 1880 in Vernon Springs, Howard Co., Iowa : Henry CURTIS Self M Male W 29 IL Laborer NY CAN Addie CURTIS Wife M Female W 29 NY Keeping House VT NY Emery CURTIS Son S Male W 8 IA At School IL NY Ettie CURTIS Dau S Female W 4 IA IL NY Orin CURTIS Son S Male W 3 IA IL NY Alice CURTIS Dau S Female W 9M IA IL NY Jerusha GURNSEY MotherL W Female W 84 NY VT CT He seems to have a 2nd wife in 1920: CURTIS EMERY 48 M W IA MN HENNEPIN 9-WD MINNEAPOLIS 1920 He is foreman of an oil well, wife Helena or Helma? 42, and several children, including Blanche Rosell 25, Gladys Benson 21, Isabell 18?, Russell Rosell 17 and Alfred 8. The Rosells may be step-children??? and Gladys was listed as md.