This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fesler, Slife, Hoover Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gk.2ADI/33.76.391.1 Message Board Post: I have found Mary Silfe mentioned on Page 506 of the Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington County, Iowa Acme Publishing Company 1887. She was married to Jacob Fesler - a prominant person in the county. (helped build the capitol building and got in the grain elevator business). He married Mary Silfe in 1848.