This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DOWERS, ELLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4h.2ADI/155.670.672 Message Board Post: I'm wondering if the Nancy Dowers who married Thomas Webster might have been married before. Acc. to the 1900 census, she gave birth to 10 children, eight of whom were still alive in 1900. Yet, I can only find nine children listed for her and Thomas. I'm wondering if she might be the Nancy Dowers who married John Eller in 1848 and had one son, b. 1850. In 1850 census in Ripley county, Brown twp., she is listed as being born in IND and her age was listed as 18. John was in Iowa by 1855 without a wife, but with a son by the name of Lafayette, b. 1850 in IND. (don't know if this is a middle or first name).