Information regarding my grandmother's sister Bessie Snow (11/1891-?) is extremely scarce. I have only 1895 and 1900 census records, and I am unable to locate either birth or marriage records for her. It wasn't until I put some family stories and photographs from the 1920s together, that I was able to piece anything together. It appears that she married Chester C. "Chet" Ives. Chet was born 8/1889 in Polk Co., Iowa to Charles W. Ives (born 1838 in OH, son of Josiah Ives), and his second wife Mary E. Chambers (born 1858 in MO). Charles and Mary married in 1879, and based upon census records, had children Blanche (1880-1880), Arthur (ca 1882), Harry L. (ca 1884), Lewis (1887), and Chester. Blanche apparently died in infancy, and I can't locate Arthur or Harry after 1895. I got their names from the 1895 Ancestry transcriptions so can't be positive the transcriptions are correct. However, I did find Lewis and Chester in Davenport, IA in 1900, inmates in the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home, along with an Emily Ives born 1885 (she may be no relation, or maybe Harry was a bad transcription in the 1895 census!). After 1900, I've never found either Bessie or Chet in a census, but Chet was listed as a driver for a dairy in the 1915 Des Moines city directory. I know they had two children, William "Billy" born about 1919 and Donna Jean born in 1922. Some time between 1922 and 1930, Bessie took off for Wyoming with Donna Jean, leaving her husband and son behind. Donna Jean was taken away from her and was adopted by a family in Omaha, and she later found her relatives in Des Moines, but I never met her. I found Billy with his apparently remarried, then widowed, grandmother, Mary Knox, in Polk County in 1930, and it showed Billy was born in Colorado. I understand he lived in Iowa for a while, but don't know what happened to him later. And I have no idea what happened to Chet or Bessie. I was writing this in hopes someone would recognize these family names, or have a new source of information that might shed some light upon this family. Shirley in Tucson