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 Message Board Post: thank you for your questions. it helps to have someone else look at things from a different perspective. I'm going back over the censi to refresh what happened to Sarah, if I ever found her in the 1860-I made no note of it either way, so it's another re-work I'll have to do. for one, I was writing late at night without notes in front of me-never the best idea.... yes, the family was not yet in Black Hawk. I should have posted my request in Butler as well. Sarah is with her parents and siblings in the 1860 in Butler, as S. J. Moffitt, so we know she wasn't m. by 1860. my supposition is that Wm Allen d. in the CW because the only record we have of him is his two children, Harriett Helen (aka Hattie) b. 1862, and Flora b. 1863 (I have full b. dates for these girls) are their only children. his name and nothing more about him is in a family book. I have it that Sarah d. in 1866. that is why "Hattie" is with her grandparents in 1870 (Flora didn't survive her first year.) it's difficult when someone's biggest records occur within a 10 year time frame. m. abt 1861, children b. '62 and '63, d. in '66. makes a person very elusive unless they were in an area where records were well kept. still haven't found their burial-there's an interesting burial for a Sarah Allen, though. I've never found the full extraction....date doesn't mesh at all with what we have for a death date for our Sarah.... Cedar County Cemetery Records Page: 5 Name: Sarah Allen Death Date: 03 Jun 1860 Age: 23 yrs. Cemetery: Rose Hill Town: Pioneer Comment: (old part) (She was the wife of Wm. Allen, killed with rest of....? but it's such a common name, these may be a different couple with the same names.