This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QFB.2ACE/1692.3 Message Board Post: Before 1870, Alpheus W Baker 58, and Ann E age 43 had moved from York Twp, Washtenaw County, MI to Ovid, Clinton Co., MI. Living with them in 1870 are Frank K, Ada A, and Lafayette (and Lafayette's wife and family including a mother-in-law Urann Herrick, age 69 born in NY) Marriage records in Washtenaw Co., MI include Lafayette's: Baker, Layfaette A Baker, Herrick, Mattie A Herrick, Washtenaw, 08 Oct 1863 and Jennie A Baker's Baker, Jennie A Baker, Chapman, Edwin A Chapman, Washtenaw, 04 Aug 1862 So if you don't find the marriage record of Lewis R Baker, theirs are available. I discovered why the father of Lewis may have used his initials "A.W"... His name was hard to spell. Here is his record of death: http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/gendisx/scripts/individual.asp?UniqueID=144468 BAKER, AEFAHEUS Date of death: 29-Jul-1874 Age: 62 years Ledger Page: 180 Record Number: 262 Place of death: York County of Death: Washtenaw Sex: Male Race: WHITE Marital Status: Married Cause of Death: GRAVEL Birthplace: NEW YORK Occupation: MINISTER Date of record: 8-Jun-1875