This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hg.2ADI/30.2 Message Board Post: When the 1900 census was taken, Augustus Hersom was living in Sugar Creek Township (Searsboro), Poweshek County, Iowa. He was born March 1827 in Maine and was 73 in 1900. His wife, Mary J., was born Nov. 1838 in Maine and was 61 when the 1900 census was taken. Living in the home were two grandchildren: Edith M. Hersom, born Dec. 1892 (age 7), born in Iowa; and Samuel P. Easter, born Dec. 1897 (age 2), born in Iowa. I don't know where he fits in with the other Hersoms who migrated from Maine to Mercer County, IL and then to Iowa, but I'm looking. Teri Allred (AllredTeriC@netscape.net)