Hello list: I was wondering if anyone out there could tell me anything about Amanda Newbery, who married James A. Newbery of Mills and Pottawattamie Cos. IA. We think that her maiden name may have been Elliott, but we are unsure at this juncture. An Amanda (whose maiden name we are unsure of) married James Newberry who resided in Pottawattamie Co. and Mills Co. when she was just a teenager, and he was in his 80's. The marriage took place sometime after the death of his fourth wife in Jan. of 1870 at Indian Creek. By 1876 James was living with his daughter in Pottawattamie Co. According to their family record he was ill for about six years and lived with them in Wheeler's Grove. His farm was in Indian Creek in Mills Co. Amanda either divorced or left and supposedly went into Harrison Co. We found an Amanda Newberry in the California census of 1930 and followed her backward to Iowa and Indiana which is where we get the Elliott name. We think that she also may have gone to Page Co. IA and married a man named William Epla, about 1876 who seemed to have a penchant for marrying and divorcing. Epla has two more wives after Amanda and live in Page Co. If our hunch is correct, and our Amanda is the same person who went on to California, she dies shortly after the census at the age of 76. Her son Harlan is there in California as well. (obituary info named him) This has been pieced together with census records. We have been unable to come up with a marriage record for Amanda and James Newberry in Iowa, yet that's where they lived. The only record we have found her on is the deed that she signed when she and James Newbery sold a piece of property in Pottawattamie Co. He died in 1880, but she was not listed on his will or the probate. The only indication that she ever existed for him was in family lore, and where the word "widow" is crossed out of the probate record. James' son mentions his fathers last wife went to Harrison Co. Thanks for any info anyone can provide. This is a real conundrum. Sue Simonich