This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STRANGE, THORP, VANCE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fm.2ADI/355 Message Board Post: In the "Marriages of Neosho County, Kansas 1864-1915" by the Chanute Genealogical Society (1983) is there a Matilda THORP or VANCE [b. abt 1847] getting married between 1860 and 1870? Her mother Mary STRANGE THORP and stepfather James VANCE moved to the part of Neosho Co. that later became Labette Co. She also had THORP siblings, Henry [b. abt 1854] and Emily [b. abt 1856]. Mary's half-siblings were John, Eliza and another Henry A. VANCE. James VANCE [b. 1795] died at their farm in Osage Twp, Labette Co. in 1872 but we don't know what became of the other family members. Evidently the mother remarried and the children took the new stepfather's name.