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/3c.2ADE/1565 Message Board Post: John W. Parker (son of Squire Parker and Malissa Morris) is listed in the 1860 Census for Banks County with wife Mary (17). I've been unable to find a marriage record for them in Banks County and suspect they were married in Habersham County, possibly just before Banks County was cut off from it. In the 1870 census, she is listed as "Mary E.". I believe she died between then and 1874, as John married Palona Goode in November of that year. Searching the 1850 Census for Habersham County, I have come across one possible candidate for Mary. A female of the right age, M. E. Bonds is listed living with her parents John and Rebecca Bonds next to John Parker and his family. I find no further record of her. I'm hoping someone can provide evidence to either confirm or eliminate her as being John W. Parker's first wife.