This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gates, Callihan Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QFB.2ACE/1679.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Anna, Daniel Linderman has answered your question. On 29 Oct 2005 6:47 PM he posted this: ".... here's the Birth Record for Martha Callahan and her Death Record: Microfilm Roll: Barry County Births Book A & B; Book/Page: A-29; Entry: 427; Date of Birth: Nov. 4, 1867; Name: Martha Gates; Sex: Female; Place of Birth: Hastings; Father: Noah Gates; Residence: Hastings; Birthplace: Michigan; Occupation: Farmer; Mother: Martha Gates; Residence: Hastings; Birthplace: New York; Date Recorded: June 5, 1868 by D. Jenkins, Clerk ====================================== Microfilm Roll: Barry County Deaths; Book C; Liber/Page: C-114; Entry: 8034; Date: Sept. 12, 1924; Name: Martha E. Callahan; Sex: Fem. [female]; Color: White; Martial Status: Married; Age: Years: 56; Months: 10; Days: 10; Place of Death: Hastings City; Cause of Death: Cancer of Stomach; Birthplace: Mich.; Occupation: Home; Father: Noah Gates; Birthplace: Unknown; Mother: Martha Chase; Birthplace: Unknown; Date of Record: Oct. 15, 1924" http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QFB.2ACE/1285.14.1.2.1.1.1 ____________________________________ I found the following Marriage record of Almon Jesse Callihan and Martha Ellen Gates married in Barry County Michigan in 1884 http://www.barrycounty.org/Cdata/MLSearch.asp Barry County Clerk-Vital Records ph: 1-269-945-1285 1205522 1884 CALLIHAN, JESSE A. -- GATES, ELLEN M. book C- page 219 1900 census Baltimore, Barry, Michigan pg05 Almon Callihan b Feb 1863 married 15 years farmer born in Michigan, parents born Ohio Martha E (Gates) b Nov 1867 mother of 5, 3 living in 1900 MI OH (actually NY) MI Florence daughter Sep 1889 Alta daughter Aug 1891 Hazel daughter Aug 1893 1910 census Baltimore, Barry, Michigan Almon J Callihan 47 Martha E wife 42 Alta E daughter 18 Hazel M daughter 16 Lydia M 72 widowed mother of Almon and 2 other children OH VT NY 1920 census Baltimore, Barry, Michigan Almon J Callahan 56 MI OH OH Martha E 52 MI NY U.S. 1930 census Baltimore, Barry, Michigan pg09 Almon J Callihan 67 age 1st marriage- 21 MI OH OH Nellie M [Babcock] 60 age 1st marriage- 17 MI NY Calada English [sic] Carlton F Babcock step-son 16 MI MI MI Marriage record of Almon & Nellie 1212695 1924 CALLIHAN, ALMON J. BABCOCK, NELLIE E-211 Anne