I got an email from him - here is his address and the price. It is $9.00 plus $1.50 postage. It is the complete census not just an index. Wes Cochran 2515 10th Avenue Parkersburg, WV 26101-5829 -------Original Message------- From: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com Date: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:46:40 To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Sam - Census records - Indexes Janice, Is that 1850 Census of Preston by Wes Cochran available in any library, or do we need to purchase it? If so, where do we get it and what is the cost? By the way, all of Simon P. Wright's children from both his first and second marriages are now deceased except his youngest son S. Russell and his youngest daughter Esta. These two are descended from Lovilla Sypolt and Henry Hartman. I was in the Oakland courthouse the other day and decided to try to track down (George) Wesley Messenger there, to see if he had gone over the state line to marry for the second time. At that time I had not found any record of his second marriage, or even of a divorce from Joanna Belle Garner. This was a puzzle, as in your book of tombstone readings of the Terra Alta cemetery you listed a child, Frances, buried w/ Wesley. The child was born long after Belle and Wesley separated, so he had another woman, married or not. (By the way, there is no death date for Wesley on the stone, although I assume /Wesley means with Wesley.) I found the records of both the marriage application and the marriage return by the minister for a second marriage for Wesley. On the application is the statement that Decree of Divorce was produced by Wesley. This was in November of 1912. He was 51 and his bride, Sarah Myrtle Osborne from near Bridgeport, was 27 and previously unmarried. The marriage took place in Oakland on Nov. 29, 1912. It was not filed and recorded until Jan.31, 1913. The child was born Sept. 6, 1913 and d. Feb. 13, 1921. I can find no tombstone reading for Sarah Myrtle in this volume (#2). Delores ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html