This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zl.2ADI/103.1 Message Board Post: I'm in the same boat you are. I have a step- relative on the 1859 Kansas Territorial Census that I don't find again until 1880. In 1859 he is in Clinton twp, Douglas County and in 1880 I pick him up again in Wyandotte. In 1871 he married my ggg-grandmother, who was evidently raising my gg-grandfather as a single parent after emigrating from Canada. These are my speculations, for what they're worth: 1) There was so much turbulence in Kansas at the end of the 1850's that people fled back into Missouri, Iowa or Illinois 2) It seems as though there was much movement right before the Civil War. Is it possible that your relative had other relatives out of Kansas that he joined? I'm going through the census images page by page now, because without this link between Canada and Kansas I'm stuck. If I come up with anything with the name you're looking for I'll post a note here with the page reference for you. Good luck!

You may have a point about the turbulence. Not just my ancestor but a whole section of the family including several wives+ kids up and moved from their county in Missouri to relatives who lived in Indiana for the duration of the Civil War and then stayed on for a year and a half longer. On the way to Indiana they stayed with sympathetic relatives and friends and further confused the trail. Fortunately one of the kids grew up to write this story down or I would still be wondering how grandad and dad was born in MO but the second child was born in Portland Mills,Indiana (& not on census) and then shows up in MO census several years after the Civil War. > From: karoli@gte.net > Reply-To: KSDOUGLA-L@rootsweb.com > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zl.2ADI/103.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I'm in the same boat you are. I have a step- relative on the 1859 Kansas > Territorial Census that I don't find again until 1880. In 1859 he is in > Clinton twp, Douglas County and in 1880 I pick him up again in Wyandotte. In > 1871 he married my ggg-grandmother, who was evidently raising my > gg-grandfather as a single parent after emigrating from Canada. > > These are my speculations, for what they're worth: > > 1) There was so much turbulence in Kansas at the end of the 1850's that > people fled back into Missouri, Iowa or Illinois > > 2) It seems as though there was much movement right before the Civil War. Is > it possible that your relative had other relatives out of Kansas that he > joined? > > I'm going through the census images page by page now, because without this > link between Canada and Kansas I'm stuck. If I come up with anything with the > name you're looking for I'll post a note here with the page reference for you. > > Good luck! > >