This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vk.2ADE/1770.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Cornelia wrote, "... 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, ... 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. ..." Cornelia, your post seems to say that you do, then that you do not, have Sarah in the 1860 census. If Wm. C. and Martha were Sarah's parents, then she is not with them in Ripley Butler IA in 1860. Only the three sons are enumerated with their parents. "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 ..." But the dates of the children's births have little if anything to do with the likelihood that their father died in the war; do you have any documented reason to believe that he even served in the military? Have you contacted the Black Hawk county vital records office to inquire whether they have marriage, birth and death records from the 1860s? I was in Cedar Falls last October and had occasion to call, and they were very helpful.