This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Eg.2ADI/2141 Message Board Post: My great-great grandfather Alexander Martin came from Ohio to Hancock Co. in the early 1830's. In 1839 he married Mary Ann Martin in Hancock Co. 1939. By the 1840's they are in Lee Co. Iowa. My questions is this-somewhere along the line I find a daughter named Becky Ann, born in Ohio 1831 or 1832. So either Alexander had a child from previous marriage or Mary Ann did. I know next to nothing before their marriage. I realize Becky Ann could be tag along relative also but for the sake of this lets assume she a daughter. Now if Alexander's first wife had died in Hancock Co. and I don't know her name-where might I check? I'm thinking if I find her I can help find a few more pieces to this huge puzzle. I can't find anything linking Alexander to the military. He was Irish and Mary Ann Martin was Scottish.