This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mkat1972 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.leavenworth/1169.1.1.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm afraid I've come to a (literal) dead end in chasing down Mary's son, Jefferson D. Wells. I was hoping to find a census where Mary was living with him, but he may have died sometime between 1895 and 1900, either in Minnesota or somewhere between there and Montana. I find Anna C. Wells living in Billings, Montana on the 1900 and 1910 censuses, listed as widowed. The directories of that time list her as the widow of Jefferson D. Wells. Then in a 1925 directory she is in Tustin CA (also "widow of Jefferson D. Wells") and newspaper accounts describe her as going back and forth between there and Burlington, Iowa. On the 1930 she is living with her brother, Albert Klein, in Burlington, and she dies Feb. 5, 1933 and is buried in Burlington. I know you are not particularly interested in Anna Klein Wells, but for completeness' sake I wanted to go as far as possible with her. There was a discrepancy between the 1895 Moorhead, MN census and the 1900 Billings MT census--Anna's child in Minnesota was a boy, Carl--in Montana it was a girl, Cora. Both born about 1887 however. One of the enumerator's may have not understood the name and wrote it down incorrectly. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>