This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Absher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2JB.2ACE/457 Message Board Post: My great grandmother is listed in the 1880 census Cape Girardeau as 16 years old, Sister Margaret McCauley is listed as guardian type. Is there or was there a Conservatory Music type or boarding school located here? I know when she was 5 she traveled from Southeastern Illinois to this boarding school after her father William Absher died in the civil war I was lead to believe. I am trying to find information on her father, her mother was Nancy Walker before she married William, Nancy later remarried. Winnie was only child of this union. Winnie born 1864. Any information onthis school will help. thank you.