I have hit another snag in my research. Robert Steele and Mary Arnold had children: William Steele who married Jennie Pruitt Robert Steele who married 1st Susan Stoneking and 2nd Margaret Jane Stoneking Alexander Steele married 3 times, 1st Lavina E. Stoneking, 2nd to Anna A. Starr Elgin and 3rd to my great grandmother Elizabeth Tandy. John Steele married Mary C. Stoneking Melinda Annie Steele who was married to unknown and divorced, then married James Ferguson. I can only find them in the 1880 census. Robert and Susan were living in Sciota and married within the year. Mary was a widow and living in Walnut Grove Twp. as were the following children: Alex, Melinda, John, Nancy. When Alex's 1st wife died his obit mentions 5 children surviving. Who are they, were did they go to live? Alex and his 3rd wife are buried in Gibson cemetery, as are other family members of their immediate family. Alex's second wife divorced him in Jan of 1895 and I have written to McDonough Co. and the IRAD and no one can seem to find the papers. This information came from "Pease Newspaper Abstracts" Volume VI. Also living with Mary and children were Lydia Pestel age 4 and Mary Pestel age 9/12 mo. Whose children were they? Could they possibly have been Melinda's children by her 1st husband? Who was he and where did they marry? If anyone has any information on the above people, I would like to hear from them. I have extensively researched the Stoneking family and come up empty handed. Where did Alex's siblings go? What happened to his father? Where is his mother buried? HELP Thank you Shirley (Steele) Thielbar ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.