This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chidester Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ig.2ADI/1059.2.2.1 Message Board Post: I will write for a death certificate. William lived close to Richard Chidester, my great grandfather, in the 1850 census of Benton, Franklin County, ILL. I didn't find William as having died in 1881 but their was a notation of an "elderly Chidester" man passing in 1880. Can you tell me where you found William's death date? I will work on Ollie