This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JEB.2ACE/74.1 Message Board Post: LDS church records show that Sarah J S Bolton married Thomas Kennedy May 18, 1851 in Westbrook Cumberland Co ME in a civil ceremony. I have not yet been able to verify this with records. Sarah (Bolton) Kennedy may have died shortly after the birth of her daughter Marietta Kennedy b 1858. There were three daughters according to census records, Sarah Adeline Kennedy born 1852 in Porlland ME, Helen Frances born 1856 in Portland ME, and my great grandmother Marietta or Mary Etta born 1858 in Portland ME. Thomas Kennedy, a merchant, ventured to Bodie Mono Co CA as early as 1878 according to tax records and his 2nd wife Elizabeth and 2 daughters Sarah Adeline and Marietta were there by 1880 census. He purchased a large tract of land and was ranching in 1880. He died sometime after 1884. The fate of daughter Helen Frances is unknown.