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/lh.2ADE/2119.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you very much, Don, for the helpful lookup. It was precisely the information I needed. Casting about for more possible clues, there are two "Indiana Marriages Through 1850" listing Michael LEWIS as groom: 5 Jan 1834 to Malinda GINTLE; 11 Jul 1850 to Elizabeth MARGASON. Census IN 1850 Bartholomew finds "Mitchael Lewis ... 61 ... NC" with blended family in Flat Rock Twp: wife is Elizabeth; step-children are MORGASONs. There were four LEWIS children ages 10-13. For Armstead's father to remarry twice after my ancestral aunt passed away seems a very plausible afterstory. Appreciatively; Laura