Joan: I missed this message when it first came out. However, I have read it and found that part of it is wrong. Please note the section on Verda B. Kyger: ************************ >In a message dated 98-06-26 11:12:52 EDT, you write: > >> I just looked at your list again. I'll bet some (Mary M. Kyger who m. Alvin >> T. Hughes, >> Viola Kyger who m. Irving Hendricks, Verda B. Kyger who m. James A. >Elliot, >> Ulysses >> V. Kyger who m. Ella Y. Payton, and Mary L. Kyger who m. John W Ayers >belong >> to >> other Kyger families. Joan will be glad to get that information as they >are >> in the process >> of trying to straighten out all the Kiger families in Indiana and Ohio. > >Dorothy and Maggie, I don't think these are from other Kiger/Kyger families >(at least most of them). Here is my take on the situation. Keep in mind this >is only educated guesswork. How does this add up for both of you? > >Vird Kyger born 23 Mar., 1831 marries first Margaret McCaw as in Dorothy's >chart. Vird leaves home on horseback--adios, goodbye. His baby son and wife >die soon after. He remarries to Ella Y. Payton on Nov. 3, 1874 (and most >likely this family never knows about the first one--this will truly be fun if >we can bring together descendants of both families, won't it now?) and has the >following children: ********************* Verda Belle Kyger is a descendant of Daniel and Anna Henthorn Kyger. Here is her line: Daniel & Anna Henthorn Kyger Henry Kyger b 1804 +Elizabeth Sims Malissa Ann Kyger 1829 Catherine Kyger 1832 --->> Charles Kyger 1834 Daniel Kyger 1836 Mary Jane Kyger 1838 Adam Kyger 1840 Henry Kyger 1843 Terrisa Kyger 1846 Charles Kyger married Susannah Force William Henry Kyger 1860 +Susan Belle Rodgers Ira Kyger --->> Charles Kyger 1888 Leota Kyger 1890 Charles Kyger married Ethel B. Jenkins Verda Belle Kyger 1912 Mildred Leota Kyger 1914 Ethel Lucille Kyger 1917 Alonzo Charles Kyger 1924 Iris Irene Kyger 1926 Verda Belle Kyger married James A. Elliot. I don't have a marriage date, but do know that Verda and James were divorced. I don't recognize any of the other Kyger names. I hope this helps. Kay ************************** <Verda B. Kyger (named for him of course--she was most likely supposed to be a >boy)--and she marries James A. Elliot on Jan. 6, 1911