This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moffitt, Allen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/1770.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: guess I shouldn't do this late at night. I was looking at the 1856 state census extract when I mentioned S. J. Moffitt. well, I will dig deeper, later this week, and see if I can discover where Sarah is. I know I've tried before, but it's always good to go back and check everything again. CW's only a supposition. no proof at all. I've looked at the sailors and soldiers site, but there are so many Wm Allen's from Iowa picking out the right one is some headache. I'll check with the v. r. office, see if they can discover anything. we have nothing on Wm Allen except that a family record book says that was his name and that he m. great grandmother Sarah Jane. no dates. no places. just his name and hers, and her date of death without a place. the family was in Black Hawk for some time, into the 1940's from one branches death dates and places of death, but they aren't in the 1895 Black Hawk census. one branch is in the Butler 1895 census.