Greetings all, Well you just never know where you are going to find family history and this past week I found one that really got me. While going thru a 1955 newspaper book in my home town of Sedan, Kansas which I am sure many of you are acquainted with by now, I came across the marriage announcement of a Mary Louise Kocher. Well this certainly caught my eye as my aunt Nadine Louise Puckett (my mother's sister) married into the Kocher family. As I was reading down thru the story it said she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stafford and I thought gee that is odd, maybe she was married to a Kocher prior, then as I read further it said where she was the niece of C. E. JOBE. Now I was really puzzled. So I ask my mother about her and she told me she was the sister of my uncle Lee Kocher and that her mother had died when she was born and that James "Jim" and his wife had taken her to raise, only my Mother did not know that Allie was a JOBE! When I returned home and checked Jobe Legacy I found that the Mrs. James A Stafford was none other than Charles Elmer Jobe�s sister and the daughter of William Shepherd Jobe and Malinda Iowa Bunch, and 6th cousin of my great grandmother Sarah Ann (Jobe) Copple / Myers who also lived in Sedan. I was so excited I could not wait to write to Ann and tell her, so our line has come even closer than it was. Now Ann and I have always wondered it these two families knew that they were related, William and Sarah that is, and I think I have solved that mystery, because one of the pallbearers for both James and Allie's funerals was a Glenn Gorby, he married Vivian Sanborn, d/o Iantha Copple and Irvin Sanborn, gd/o William Copple and Elmira Heaviland and gt gd/o Sarah Ann (Jobe) Copple / Myers, so I would now say YES they did! On Saturday I traveled to Sedan again (for my Mother's 82nd bd) and stopped at the library and got the marriage record of James Alford Stafford and Ella Alice �Allie� Jobe (we thought it was in Montgomery Co., Ks.) also their obits, funeral records, and pictures of their cemetery stones. Next week I am going to check for their Wedding Announcement in the 1899 newspaper, Land Deed, 50th Wedding Anniversary Announcement, Funeral Cards, Probate Records. So it turns out that the sister of my uncle Lee Kocher was raised by a JOBE descendant of Ann�s and now mine! I have created a new photo album for this family, and will be adding the cemetery photos to probably her father�s album as there are no other descendants of this family. I will not be posting the wedding story for Mary Louise as her husband Allen E. Stephenson is still living. Happy New Year! Freida Wells [email protected] Record of Ella A. �Allie� Jobe and James A. Stafford http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2132840349 Index-This album http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajobebrown/jobe/album/stafford.html