I don't think your William E. Sales was the son of Wm. or Jane Sales from England. The 1910 census for Dixon County, Nebraska, lists what appears to be your William E. Sales and wife Laura, and that census says William's father was born in Indiana. Sales, William E., 50, married once, 26 yrs, b. IA, father b. IN, mother b. IA, farmer Sales, Laura, wife, 47, married once, 26 yrs, had 7 children and 7 survive, b. IA, father b. OH, mother b. OH Sales, Elmer, son, 23, b. IA Sales, Josephine, dau., 18, b. IA Sales, Asa, son, 9, b. IA Sales, Otto, son, 5, b. IA I suspect your William E. Sales is related to the Sales clan that came from Putnam Co., IN, to lower Harrison Co. and upper Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, along with the SKELTON, JONES, and other families. There was a large wagon train of families that arrived in this area during the great Mormon movement. In the 1870 census for Iowa, there are several SALES men born in Indiana living near Missouri Valley, Iowa, and also Rockford Township, Pott. Co. Some are buried at the Branson Cemetery south of Missouri Valley. The 1870 census shows: JOHN A 26 M W IN IA HARRISON ST JOHN TWP 1870 LOOT 52 M W TN IA POTTAWATTAMIE ROCKFORD TWP 1870 WILLIAM 25 M W IN IA HARRISON ST JOHN TWP 1870 All of these men came with that group from Indiana; I don't see that any of them have a son, William E., who would have been about age 10 in 1870. If your William SALES is confirmed as the son of William and Jane, from England, then he appears with them in the 1870 census in Council Bluffs, 4th Ward, page 114: C. F. Sales, 24, teamster, b. OH, head A. J. Sales, wife, keeping house, b. IL Wm. Sales, 50, carpenter, b. England Jane Sales, 45, keeping house, b. England Wm. Sales, 14, b. IA Hilda Sales, 13, b. IA T. A. Crandal, 28, life ins agent, b. PA H. E. Crandal, 28, b. VA, wife A. F. L. Crandal, age 6, male, b. NY M. A. Crandal, age 3, b. IL E. Crandal, 1, female, b. IA I hope this helps you. Mona Sarratt Knight