This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CANTONWINE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wl.2ADE/118 Message Board Post: Looking for Alexander Cantonwine, b. Nov 1850 in IA, son of Michael & Catherine (Myers/Myres) Cantonwine. Last found in 1920 U.S. Census • Kansas • Clay • Clay Center • ED# 6, Image 5 Alexander Cantonwine, 72, widow. Alexander appears to have been married twice--first to Mary (Unknown), b. abt 1859 in Iowa, with whom he had one daughter, Estella, b. abt 1879 in Kansas (per 1880 Census > Kansas > Washington > Sherman > District 325). Per 1900 Census > Oklahoma > Grant > Coldwater > District 67, Image 10, his wife was Ellen (b. Oct 1851 in NY). Alexander wrote two books, "Cimarron Race-Oklahoma" and "Star Forty-Six, Oklahoma. I haven't been able to find where he died or is buried.