This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Swanson/Darnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XBB.2ACE/1837.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry Karen, I can't help you. Like you I am totally stuck! All I know for sure is that Madison Swanson was a gun-slinger and that he was murdered in July 1900. He is burried in the Coffey Cemetery beside Catherine Coffey Darnell. Her husband John Darnell of Adair County is listed as paying bail money for him and as a witness for him on several indictments from 1890-1900. There are a few Swanson families in 1880 and 1900 census, but I don't recall a "John Swanson" Barbara