This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: METCALF, BULLIVANT, DAY, PERRY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/1648.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sylvia, First of all, the Stearns County records have been filmed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and can be accessed at your local Family History Center. The film with the marriage index is # 1379045. The film for the first marriage record is # 1379047 and for the second record it's #1379048 The record for the first marriage of William H. Metcalf Jr. is in Book N, page 66, No. 6068. It says the license application is dated 11 Nov 1892 and the license is dated the same. The certificate of marriage returned by the "minister of the gospel" (no church name given) is dated 24 November, 1892. It was filed and recorded 30 Nov. 1892. The details were: State of Minnesota, County of Stearns, at Fair Haven. The minister of the gospel who performed the ceremony and signed the original was W. J. Bullivant [her father?]. The couple were William H. Metcalf Jr of Stearns County and Nellie H. Bullivant of Stearns. The witnesses were F. A. Hill and Ida Lytle. The second marriage is in film 1379048, Book Q (the index says Book R), number 8380. The license is granted to William H. Metcalf Jr. of Stearns County and Carry L. Day of Stearns and dated 8 June 1901. The certificate is also dated 8 June 1901 at St. Cloud. The "minister of the Gospel" is E. V. Campbell. The witnesses are: Freeman Day and Ida Day. It was filed and recorded 10 June 1901. The death record for Wm. Henry Metcalf is from Maine Prairie, Stearns County, Minn. He died 1909, Sept. 25. He was born 1841 Nov 1. His age was 67 years, 10 months, 28 days. He was a farmer, born in Connecticut. His father was Fred Metcalf, born in Connecticut, and his mother was Rahana Perry, born in Massachusetts. He died of heart failure; a contributing cause was cardiac asthma. He was buried in Fair Haven on 9/26/09. This family is listed by Ancestry.com on their World Tree. The date of Henry Sr's birth is slightly different there, i.e. 1842, which was maybe taken from a census. That site has a lot more info about the family. If you can't access it, let me know. It does not have the last name of Martha. I don't have the birth record films. If you could get the birth records for the baby that shows up on the 1900 census you could find the mother's last name (well theoretically, anyway). It is strange that there are no death records for Martha or Wm. Henry Jr. on the Minnesota Historical Society's death index site. Of course Martha could have married again. Nancy Pundsack