-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 03, 1999 3:48 AM Subject: GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-D Digest V99 #2 Can anyone help me. I have been searching for my grandmother, Ida Mae KOACH COOPER for five years. The following is all that I have on her: Marriage license, 21 July 1903 at Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma Territory to Clifford A. COOPER which says she was 23 years old then; Funeral record which says she was born in Moss County, KS on 4 December 1887, that her nationality was German and she died 29 August 1929 in Hoisington, Barton County, KS; Her death certificate states her name as Ida E. COOPER, date of birth 4 December 1887 in Kansas. It names her father as John KOTCH born in Germany. I have been to her grave in Pratt Kansas. This is all that I know of her. But if she were 23 years old when she married in 1903, she would have been born about 1880. I have not found her on any census anywhere. She is my father's mother and all of the family is gone so I have no one to ask about this. It is a real puzzle and I would like to solve it in my lifetime. So I would appreciate any help no matter how minute it may be. Thanking all of you in advance with all my heart. Jo.