This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILDE WILDER SHEPHARD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RFB.2ACE/1306.1.2 Message Board Post: George, thanks for the information. Is there any other information in the ledger book such as F.O.'s age? I am a little stuck, I have a document written by a first hand family member stating that a JOHN C WILDE married JULIA SHEPHARD, she died and he then married MARY J SHEPHARD, her sister. Now, trying to backup that statement, I found a reference in a marriage database on the MiGenWeb for Calhoun county stating that MARY SHEPHARD married F.O. WILDER in 1856. Then JOHN C WILDE married MARY J WILDER in 1864. The reason I am stuck is because my great Grandfater CHARLES E WILDE has Mary J Shephard and John C Wilde as his mother and father on his death certificate. But we believe since, he was born in 1860 (4 years before MARY WILDER and JOHN C WILDE were wed) that he may actually be the son of F.O. WILDER, not JOHN C WILDE. Which would really thow a twist into the family. Not to mention was the actual mother Julia and she died? Boy do I feel sorry for all of the future genealogists with the divorce and seperation rates we have today! How confusing it will be for them! Thank you for all of your help in advance!