This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: apsaroke Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/3088.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you very much, Walter. I have the Rufus Burrows diary and have just examined it again. He mentions his stepfather Rufus Hitchcock and several uncles named Rice. He also mentions his mother, but does not give her first name. However, I am sure you are correct and will dig into that. Thanks to your many postings on the web I think I have finally resolved some puzzles that I did not expect ever to be resolved. You are an incredible source of historical information, and I think anyone on these boards should be grateful for your participation. I certainly am. I may have posted some of this before, but in the past week I have found the 1840 baptismal records for my great great grandmother and two of her Greenwood nephews. She was the sister of Caleb's wife (which is how she is described), but much younger, and they were of the Crow tribe. Caleb noted this himself, as did my great great grandmother, and the Crow tribal elders confirmed this independently as well in the 1950s, so I guess the priest erred in noting Gros Ventre. I imagine there were others there connected to the Gros Ventre tribe and he might just have assumed the same. My great great grandmother noted that she was born in about 1832 (near Fort Union) and lived with her sister (Batchicka Youngcault) until this sister died, then she lived with Mrs. Nancy Hitchcox (sic) (who I would bet is this Nancy Hitchcock) until she came west in 1848 with her brother-in-law Caleb Greenwood and family. James Case Greenwood (a son of Caleb born abt. 1841 stated that she had lived with the Greenwood family from infancy. (The story we were told in the family is that her parents and possibly a brother were killed by Indians, presumably not of the Crow tribe.) Sarah Frances Eberman that married John Greenwood in 1847 in Atchison County stated that she and my great great grandmother were little girls together. In fact, Sarah came west with Greenwood in 1848 as well, and she was the maid of honor for my great great grandmother's marriage in Coloma, CA in the spring of 1849. Three things that I am struggling with are: 1. you made note in a post that you thought that Caleb left his kids with Andrew Gemecker in 1846, but you weren't sure at the time and were going to check some notes. This would seem to contradict the documents I have. 2. you mentioned (I think in the same post) that you thought Batchika Youngcault Greenwood (died 1843) might be buried at "The Narrows." I take it this is some place where people of mixed blood such as her were typically placed and there is no cemetery per se? 3. the name Youngcault (sometimes I've seen Youngcau) must come from the father of these two women. I know that he was French, and my great great grandmother believed he was born in Canada, but this name does not exist in any records anywhere else in the world, including Canada and France. I imagine it must be a garble form of some French name. Thanks again, and I hope that you might be kind enough to clarify at least the first two points here. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.