In a message dated 1/4/2005 8:11:29 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Sharon May I suggest: 1. You look for burials in National Cemetery in Danville. Since soldiers were buried there free and got a stone. The widow often opted to do this. She too could be buried out there, but alas there would not be a stone for her. 2. Death records were not REQUIRED until 1916 so they were often sparse and there was minimal info on them. 3. Elwood is a township in Vermilion County. Ridge Farm being the town. 4. There are a few cemeteries in that area. Crown Hill, being the largest. Check the papemortuary.com web site to get cemeteries of Verm county. 5. Danville, Ill had the newspapers. They are on microfilm at the Danville Public Library. But again, don't expect to find an obit for that early time period. Now they did have a column in the paper that had news of soldiers at the Home. But don't recall the time period. Obits were not the usual. Unless you died tragically, by scandal(like murder) or were prominent or wealthy then you might find one. At alas, a WOMAN would certainly not have one! IF she did, it talked of her husband and not her. 6. Since they moved alot and most assuredly since Ind is 15miles from Ill. they often went back and forth.. The widow could have moved back near relatives in Ind and of course when her daughter married she probably would move near or WITH them. I haven't found another marriage for her, which would be the usual, if she had more than 1 child and was of child bearing age. Hope this helps Granny P. S. All the marriages, census, cemetery records are available at the Illiana Genealogical & Historical Society in Danville. They have a web page too. Granny, Thanks for all the advise I have checked all the cemeteries that are listed on line - did not find them Check Pape's many times - not there either. Guess when I make my yearly trip that way will have to really dig deeper take a few more walks through a few more cemeteries and see if I can find out more. But thank you for all your suggestions. As far as I know they only had the one child so that makes looking for siblings not hopeful. Last year I finally found Mary's parents in the Newport, Old Thomas Cemetery in Vermillion, IN, and while at that cemetery looked for them hoping that they may have been buried somewhere close to them, but no that was not the case. Sharon Gill Vanden Bossche Homepage: _http://www.geocities.com/sharonv45/index.html_ (http://www.geocities.com/sharonv45/index.html) E-mail: [email protected] Visit my Memorial to Family Veterans at: _http://www.freewebs.com/sharonv45/index.htm_ (http://www.freewebs.com/sharonv45/index.htm) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why is Leonard Peltier still in prison...??? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _http://www.freepeltier.org_ (http://www.freepeltier.org/)