This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KNOWLTON, PIERCE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5Mn.2ACEB/334.1 Message Board Post: Cathy, I have spent considerable time on your problem; finally I googled Pearl and picked up many of your messages on other boards over the last year. Last February you said his name was Harry J, nick- named "Arie." Is it J or L? I repeated your census research and found Pearl and her second husband (from your post on the Osage co, OK board) Thos Stephens living in Big Hill. Halfway up that census page you see Clarence Reynolds m to Bessie B. listed with his sister in law, Vivian C. Knowlton. You had neglected to tell us about Pearl's remarriage in your Knowlton post. Two pages earlier are John F Simmons with Gladys, nee Knowlton. What happened to Harry Leon, the little boy? But where is the family in 1920? The Simmons family, Frank Sr with his children, including J. Frank, are in Strike Axe, Osage co. But where are the Knowltons? Because that name is often misspelled, I searched the census looking for Pearl, Opal, Harry, Henry, etc., without success so far. I did locate the family in Big Hill in 1910. Perhaps you should look at every page of Big Hill in 1920. Have you collected your vital records? Check cyndislist.com for information on how to order Oklahoma death, marriage, and birth certificates and when each record began. For sure you should be able to get an OK marriage record for Harry and Pearl since she was already living in Oklahoma when she married. If Harry's father really was from Maine, the family may have been part French-Canadian, explaining the French accent. Most Knowltons are descended from the same people who came to Ipswich, MA, in the 1630s, but there are exceptions. I located Pearl Peirce with her parents, George and Caroline, on the Kay Co., OK, census in Longwood, as you said in your February post to Osage co board. In my entire search I found only one Harry Knowlton who was born in July 1874, and he was born in California, living in San Francisco in 1880 and 1900. His father Joseph, was born in Maine, was a stage agent, and, had died by 1900. His mother, Lizzie Doolittle, then lived in her father's household; he was a hotel proprietor It would be highly unusual for an urban person in California to migrate back to the midwest to become a farmer ca 1905. When did Oklahoma open up to white settlers? I am happy to go on working on this with you, but you need to order your vital records as a next step.