This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fischer, Griggs, Lowell, Tingley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YaW.2ACIB/1004 Message Board Post: Please respond to mikmaq3197@yahoo.com I am looking for information on the first marriage and parents of Elizabeth Rebecca Fischer whose second marriage was to Byron Lowell April 5, 1874 in Colorado. Her first marriage was to a Griggs. She was born in 1850 in Ripley, WV. Family lore has it that she married George Griggs in order to move west with her sister and brother-in-law, that she had two children from her first marriage, that her first husband died in Colorado and she met Byron while working as a cook at a logging camp. Family lore states that Annie Griggs (daughter of Elizabeth and her first husband) married a Tingley and had a daughter Pearl who possibly lived in Rhode Island. I found her and Byron in the 1880 Federal Census with 3 children from her first marriage (George F age 13, John McC age 12, and Eliza A age 8) and two children from her second marriage. In the 1870 Federal Census, I found a Solomon Griggs age 32 (blacksmith born in PA) with an Elizabeth age 18 (born in Indiana) and George age 3 and John age 2. Both children are listed as born in Colorado. The census is for Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado Territory. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Betsy (Lowell) Damon mikmaq3197@yahoo.com