This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WOODDEN, LINN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mh.2ADI/259.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You replt quickloy- and I worried if the email would still be current :-) I wrote to your email too, just in case you did see this post. The Catherine mentioned in this obit is Catherine LINN. She was James WOODDEN's second wife. His first wife was Catherine SWERER. They were married 29 Jan 1825 in Preble County, Ohio. James was born about 1806 in VA. I don't know yet how he came to Ohio. James had at least 5 children with his first wife before she died of typhoid fever on 29 Aug 1852 in Harrison, Kosciusko, IN. He married the Catherine mentioned in the obit on the date mentioned in it (so it was about 4 months later). James and this second Catherine had a daughter named Martha S. Woodden (aka Mattie) who was born abt 1853 in Kosciusko County (probably in Harrison). Mattied married Joseph C Blickenstaff and is the Mrs J C Blickenstaff mentioned in teh obit. James Woodden came with Andrew Sell from Preble County to Kosciusko County about 1832, and were the first white settlers in Harrison Township. I don't know if there are any clues to help you there-- were your Eckerts in Preble county that you know of? Perhaps Catherine LINN's mother was an Eckert? Or maybe a sister married an Eckert? I will keep looking, and will let you know if I learn anything! Susan :-)