This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Backus Carriere Carrier Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BGB.2ACI/485 Message Board Post: Looking for any\one with a connection to this family. William was born in Leslie MI in June of 1864, Josephine was born in Detroit in Feb 1862. Married in Lansing in 26 Nov 1888. Moved to Jackson sometime after 1900. They had the following children, Martin (b. 1 June 1889, believed to have died in Chicago), James ( b. Jul 1890, married a woman named Amelia who died in 1963), Ellen (b. Feb 1893) and Hazel (b. Jun 1899). William died in 1937 and Josephine died in 1943, both in Jackson Co. Josephine's maiden name was either Carriere or Carrier and she had at least 3 siblings, Joseph, Anna, Phoebe ( my great grandmother) . Mike Pratt Lansing, MI