This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BREWSTER SAVAGE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fm.2ADI/306.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Thank you for the offline message, Randy. I appreciate your response. It is possible we are referring to two different Edward Brewsters (I believe there may have been other unrelated Brewsters in the area) or the census record for 1880 may have been incorrectly enumerated by the census taker (I have seen big mistakes on them before!). I have seen the census record you mentioned - it is in Chetopa where the family lived and they were there in 1880 but does not fit with other family records I have found. (another mystery to solve!) I have included a little more info on my family. Per the 1850,1860 census records of Harrison TWP, Bartholomew, IN and the Brewster Genealogy, Emma C Brewster Jones plus other records (MA, OH, IN, KS records of marriage, death, etc.) these are the children of Marshall Brewster (son of Jasper Brewster & Theodosia Lyman) & Chloe K. Smith (son of Stephen Smith & Clarissa Wheler) that I have and then below them the Edward Brewster family: 1. Clarissa Theodosia (died prior to the move to KS) Married Edward Henry Deats 2. Jasper W. Married Amanda J Keyser 3. Oscar Fitzallen (died in IN) Never married 4. Sidney L Married Louisa Curry 5. Edward Married Catherine "Kate" Savage 6.Samuel W. Married Hattie M Mills Marshall was born in Washington, MA - you should find his listing online. Chloe was born in Harpersfield, OH. From the KS State Census 1895 census microfilm (available through Family History Centers) these are the children of Edward Brewster (born 1851, IN) and Catherine Mary Savage (born 1856, MI) alive at that time: Marshall Junius Theodosia Allen * twin Anson *twin Dwight Chloe (Edward's mom was also living with the family at that time-I have old photos showing her at the homestead with her grandchildren and at a BIG Brewster reunion in Kansas). Another child was born in KS after the state census: Myrtle Margery The 1895 KS census, an agricultural one was awesome and gave me a full report on the family's livestock, crops, etc.The family also appears on AZ census records after their move there. (1900-1930) Are you a descendant of this family or do you have a connection with them? If so please let me know. I am currently in the process of doing a website that will contain lots of Brewster info and photos from the 1872 period on - including one of Edward's dad, Marshall). Thank you for your information -I will try to follow up with the newspapers you mentioned-I would love to solve this mystery and they sound very promising! B. Brewster