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/2JB.2ACE/512.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Your reasoning seems right - you need documented proof!!!! Locate the counties where Grandison Bussy and Henry H. Miller lived. See if there are any probate records or land records which would require surnames and given nanes (example: Miller, Henry and wife Lucy). Some records might lists dowries, guardianships, etc. This would be solid proof since death records were not kept and church records might not name survivors. Does this make sense?? Have I serached the Missouri Census Index for any of the names you quoted? If listed in the book one can go to the census film and get more information.