> Anyways, back to your brick wall right. Since your Martha C. Pickle was > 18 on the 1850 then she could have been married shortly there after and more > then likely close to where she was enumerated. You may want to find the > churchs around the area and near by towns and check their wedding records. > Once again, I recommend a phone call rather then a letter or email because > you can get faster results. Carol, her obit states she was married at age 22 (so, 1854) near Memphis. I put in a request to the Tennessee state archives. They searched the counties surrounding & including Memphis but came up with nothing. I've been thinking it strange a young woman would leave home before marriage, but perhaps she didn't; perhaps her home (family she lived with) moved, and she with them. I need to see if Jonathan & Penelope Leggit are still in Bedford Co in 1860 but haven't done so yet. > In the mean time, I would definitely write away for any information > regarding William being buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Winfield, KS. That > would be a good place to start since you know where he is already. From > there you might find other relatives buried in the same plot. Good idea, but already done. :-) I have requested a film from the LDS library that contains the Mt. Zion records. William H. & Martha are buried there, as well as their son William J. & his wife Ora. Beverly Horner submitted a complete list of names for Mt. Zion to Interment.com, so I apparently have no other relatives there. Dean and Faye Alley live in the area and were kind enough to send me photographs of the tombstones of my Marshall graves. (yes, I was thrilled!) I hope the film will tell me the cause of death and where William was born. I have the death certificate for Martha (died in 1917) and her daughter did not know her mother's parents names or where they were from - not surprising if they died when Martha was a child. > This link http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/pensions.htm#Links is a web site > that will help you find and order records from the National Archives. It > seems pretty thorough and straight forward. Give it a try, you mat find > that your William was infact a part of the Civil War after all. There were at least 4 William H. Marshalls in the War, according to one site I checked out. I'm not sure how I'm going to figure out which one is mine, so I may have to order all of them. > And as for the Land Grants, there is always the good old stand by > http://www.cyndislist.com/land.htm Cyndi's List. She is very good, infact > you may want to use her for the Civil War Records too > http://www.cyndislist.com/cw.htm . I think that you might have to contact > the actual state that Bedford county is in and see what sort of treasures > they may have for you. Once again, a visit in person will most certainly be > more productive then an email, letter or phone call this time. I hope to eventually visit, but I have other travel plans this summer, so I don't know when I'll get there. Thanks for the suggestions. Lynn > Let me know how these all turn out for you > All the best > > Carol Gabriel > > List Admin > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >