Thank all for you help with my Where is CARDIN IN...I will check out those possible towns and locations. Per one reply to my post here is a little more on the family I am seeking I am searching for follow: (actually need parents/family for both parents listed) Harvey Harbin HUGHES b: 24 Oct 1837 Gary IN (also have a birth year 1826) d: 08 Dec 1897 Ardmore OK m: bet 1855-1865 Indiana Martha/Margaret Elizabeth CRAWFORD b: 13 May 1841 IN d: 25 Aug 1890 Ardmore OK ch: Nathan HUGHES b: 25 Nov 1865 Cardin IN (adopted Cherokee trying to prove) Effie HUGHES b: 13 Sept 1868 d: 04 Dec 1869 Lydia Adaline HUGHES b: 04 Apr 1871 Gary IN (adopted Cherokee trying to prove, this is my husbands gr grandmother and her husband never let her claim her Indian rights as he was a white man and would not hear of it) Aaron Calvin HUGHES b: 26 Jan 1874 ? d: 24 Aug 1890 Ardmore OK David William HUGHES b: 30 Apr 1876 (Nebraska per 1910 census) d: 1920 OK Alma Clemantine HUGHES b: 24 Sept 1880 Ardmore OK Any help greatly appreicated Denise