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/RFB.2ACE/1797.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Tom: In most of the Census records Sarah responded that her mother was born in Virginia. She was not consistent in her responses to this question. In 1880 Anna Louise was living with the Nicholas SCHMUTZ family in Pekin (Tazwell) Illinois. They adopted her. Perhaps FLOWERS made it a condition of marriage to not take Sarah's MOORE children. Sarah's birth name was MILLER. Her response to being married twice should be correct based on the information I have so far. Since your tip about finding Sarah's brother in the 1860 Census, I reread her marriage cert to John FLOWERS. A Charles L. WOOD signed as witness. Sarah also named her only son Charles. Charles L WOOD also married John FLOWERS' sister. Apparently sibling sister and brother married sibling brother and sister.