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/REX.2ACIB/3868 Message Board Post: While searching "A Biographical record of Hamilton County, Iowa" for a unrelated surname I stumbled across a new Bray. She Married a "John L Ford" Below is some of the text. Would love to know more of this family........ "On the 16th of September, 1868, Mr. Ford was married to Miss Louise Bray, who was born in New York, January 6, 1842, and is a daughter of Samuel and Clarissa (Marble) Bray, who were natives of New York, but are now deceased. The children born unto our subject and his wife are as follows: Gussie, the wife of William Perry, of Webster City, by whom she has two children, May and Alleyne; Carrie, who is employed in the dry goods department of the store of Sackett & Cornell, at Webster City: Alpha, who is a bookkeeper in the employ of A. Little: Ada. who died in March, 1882: and Johnny, who completes the family." They were married in DeKalb county Illinois Her parents are my main line but this is the first I have known of her