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/Fh.2ADI/5777.1 Message Board Post: How much of this is yours? -IL Statewide marriage index Grant, Thomas A. to Bennett, Sarah A. 08/09/1864 Gallatin county -Census, 1870, IL, White, Heralds Prairie Grant, Thomas 30 M W Farmer IL , Sarah 30 F W Keeping house IL , Helen 3 F W IL , Earl 1 F W IL I would really look at the original image of this one. An ‘L’ and a ‘T’ can be confused in script. Besides there were only two ‘Sarah’s listed as brides to a Thomas Grant in the Statewide marriage index. The other marriage with a Sarah is in 1889. -1880 census New Haven, Gallatin, Illinois L. A. Grant Self M Male W 41 IL Farmer ENG NY S. A Grant Wife M Female W 41 IL Keep house NC TN Theresa Grant Dau S Female W 14 IL IL IL Lucy Grant Dau S Female W 9 IL IL IL Lola Grant Dau S Female W 7 IL IL IL Loren Grant Dau S Female W 2 IL IL IL -IL Marriage Index KERR, WILLIAM J to GRANT, THERESA H 12/27/1897 020/ WHITE -1910 census IL, White, Heralds prairie twp Kerr, William J Head M W 53 M2 13 At Sea Ireland Ireland , Theresa Wife F W 49 m1 13 3,3 IL IL IL , Stanly Son M W 11 S IL AtSea IL , Wellington Son M W 8 S IL AtSea IL , William Son M W 3 S IL AtSea IL -Statewide Marriage Index GRANT, ROBERT to TOMSON, SARAH ANN M 11/08/1843 002/ WHITE GRANT, ROBERT to DIPNER, SARAH 08/26/1880 1 /33 429 MASON It may be that Theresa died before 1904. Thomas A. Grant, of White county, age 71 has a wife named Susan and it is the second marriage for both. They have been married for 6 years. She has 3 children alive. The places of parents births matches L. A. Grant of 1880 census. -1910 Census IL, White, Eufield Twp Grant, Thomas A Head M W 71 M2 6 IL ENG NY , Susan M Wife F W 49 M2 6 7,3 IL IL IL IF those two Thomas Grants of 1910 and 1880 are the same then, his father was born in England. I looked for a male named Grant, born in England and living in IL in the 1860 census. There was only one that had a son named Thomas and that one was 20 in 1860. - 1860, IL White, New Haven P O Grant, Robert 63 M Farmer England , Sarah 40 F Tenn , Thomas 20 M IL , Margaret 16 F IL , Robert 14 M IL , George 12 M IL , Richard 10 M IL , John 8 M IL , Wm 6 M IL , Elizabeth 4 F IL , Charles 1 M IL , Mary 1 F IL There was no Thomas Grant, age 20 living on his own in Illinois in 1860