Have a great mystery for you tonight. Josephine Nolden and Richard Thompson from Beardstown,Illinois,Cass County were married June 1886,a year later they move back to Beardstown or Arenzville and Josephine is pregnant. Richard dies of dropsey Apr.9,1887 and is buried in Potters Field,where noone knows not even the Sexton. Josephine delivers a child Clifford Frederick Thompson on April 15,1887 according to the birth announcement in the paper,First Evangelical Lutheran Records show Clifford being born April 10,1887,no birth record to be found. Last picture of Josephine and Clifford looks to be around 1891,she supposedly died of a tapeworm complication,like her father. Father dies 1904.No obit for Josephine;Clifford is taken in by Grandmother,Maria Nolden,obit states oldest daughter died 26 years before?Which made it 1904 that was the year husband died. I believe Josephine may have died in Arenzville not Beardstown,not sure. What date haven't got a clue.Possibly 1891-1892.Last picture. Family photo taken before Granfather Frederick Nolden died,all children except Josphine are in the photo.Clifford looks to be about 15 years old or so. What happened to her?Anyone have a clue as to where I can look? Ginger