Hi everyone, I'm researching a friend of mine's family who has deep roots in Harford County and have run into two brickwalls early on in the research. I'm just going to throw some information out there and hope someone might be able to help me find a needle in a haystack. My friend's great grandparents are below: Oscar Ewing b: 10 Jul 1870 in MD d: 11 Jun 1942 in Harford Co., MD +Sarah Jane Sadler b: 1878-1880 in MD d: 21 Apr 1939 in Harford Co., MD I won't go into all the gory details on Oscar, but because he was born after the 1870 census was taken and by 1880 was not living with his parents, I cannot determine who his parents were. I've exhausted all available records in Harford County, and his death certificate was no help. I'll do some digging in Cecil County, but I suspect he actually was from Harford County. If anyone by some miracle should happen to have across his name in any estate or Bible records, I'd be grateful for any information. His wife Sarah Jane Sadler is then also a problem. I know that her father was Milliard Sadler and have information on him. Milliard married a woman name Margaret Norris in about 1878, but I don't believe she is Sarah Jane's mother. The 1900 census says she had no children, and Sarah Jane's death certificate says her father was Millard Sadler and her mother unknown. (Margaret Norris Sadler outlived Millard by 24 years and lived with the Ewing family until her death, so had she been Sarah Jane's mother, there's no reason she would have been "unknown" on the death certificate.) It would seem that Millard was probably married prior to Margaret and that his wife likely died during or shortly after childbirth. There are no marriage records at all for Millard in Harford County, so I have no idea who his first wife was. So again, I'm hoping maybe someone has come across a family Bible or estate records from Sarah Jane's mother side of the family that might mention Sarah Jane. Any help or thoughts appreciated. I've never run into such tough brickwalls so early in research! (Note DNA testing has proven that Oscar was indeed a Ewing, but it's not helped me isolate him down to a specific Maryland line.) Thanks. Jane