Oh my gosh, will miracles never cease! This is my Mary Ann James who married Patrick J. Moss. She was 6 years old on the 1850 Census. Where have you had her hidden all this time? I have been unable to find her on a census anywhere after her marriage on 10 Nov 1866 to Patrick J. Moss in LaPortee Co., IN. I have have her father's name and other info concerning and a good guess for her mother. Her father was Joel James, b. VA. Probably her mother was the Martha Hannon who married a Joel James in 1832 in Warren Co., IN. Joel appeared in Marshall Co., IN., about 1838 as a squatter on some abandoned land there. By 1850 his second wife has died and he is married a third time and living in Starke Co., IN. By 1860, he is in St. Joseph Co., IN., and by 1870 both he and his third wife has died leaving several minor children. After this I lose several of the children and can't seem to find them. Mary had an older sister, probably a daughter of the first wife, named Jane who married a Beagles and some divorced after 2 children. She is lost also. Family tradition has it that Joel James married three times and had 21 children. I have names of only 11 or 12 of them. Perhaps some of them died young. I don't know. Johnita Norman H. Ricker, Jr. wrote: > > Mary James, born about 1845 IN, married about 1866 P. J. Moss. Mary Jane > would have been about 5 years old at the time of the 1850 Indiana Census. > Can any one help me find her? I do not know when or where her marriage to > Moss took place. her first two children were born in MI 1867 and 1868; sure > would appreciate some help on this. > > Norm Ricker > [email protected] > > ==== JAMES Mailing List ==== > List problems? First, read the Welcome Message that you received > when you subscribed to this list. Feel free to contact > Yvonne James-Henderson,list administrator mailto:[email protected] > with questions concerning this list! > Visit the JAMES Surname homepage! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/jameskin.htm