This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.bartholomew/253.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I suspect that Christopher Carson Cooley's first wife was Patsy Maria Elkins, marriage recorded as 28 June 1875 in Jackson Co., Indiana. She was a daughter of Evan Prather Elkins and Martha Cooley, so perhaps a distant cousin. It's indexed as "Carrison" Cooley, but I'll bet it's him. She apparently died, don't know when; he next married Minnie Edmondson, 9 Jan 1883 in Bartholomew Co. She's apparently the one he "run off," not long before the letter was written. Then he married third to Effie Bell, 5 Nov 1890 in Jackson Co.