Might I be able to get a copy of the marriage record, beyond the listing? I know that Sears is wrong, but if using what IRAD has will get me what I need, I'll take it! I've got lots and lots of earlier info on Jennie, and I'll believe how her minister/teacher father spelled her first husband's name in the family Bible, where he always used his best writing. Seass was a prominent early Moultrie Co family and they've done a lot of research. And Jennie's son always shows up as Seass. That doesn't stop Jennie from being Seace in the 1880 census! So while Sears is "wrong", if thats what the stat records show, the record may hold the key to the mytsteriouis Mr Bartlett, and to her death. Do you know how to get information that far back? And thank you for the information on G.A.'s wives. When I put that together with the 1880 census, this guy was fertile. He must have had another wife before poor Isabelle, because his children had mothers born in three different states. He really needed another wife after Hattie died to raise all the kids. Jennie must have really wanted out of her father's poverty-stricken house to take her 9-year old into that pile of kids, only 29 herself. I wonder if she died in childbirth herself. Thanks, Doris -- Dovekeeper@aol.com wrote: Doris, I was one who answered about the two Bartlett women buried in Long Grove. At that time, I looked up your George Bartlett on the Illinois marriage index and found a George Bartlett who married a Jennie SEARS in Moultrie County.Possibly you have been working on a misspell of Jennie's last name. Try Sears and see what you come up with - the Sears/Bartlett marriage can be found on the marriage index for Illinois. Good luck! Rosie ==== ILMACON Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from the list send a message to: ILMACON-L-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject. To unsubscribe from the digest send a message to: ILMACON-D-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject.