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/450.1 Message Board Post: Your request for information on Stephen Lyle HALE and his wife intrigued me. I began with the 1880 Cape Girardeau Census page 211 where the following is listed: #37 Cape Girardeau Township HALE Stephen 36 Agnes 26 wf Harry 4 son Clarence 3 son Bertrand 2/12 son FENTON Anna 23 s-sister Then research failed. I could not find any Hale or Fenton marriages in published indexes up to 1900 Then an idea popped into my head. Check the Oct 10, 1927, newspaper for Agnes's death. Well I hit gold!!! Agnes did not live in Cape County or Missouri when she died!! The article says: DEATH ---- E. Harry Hale, of Rural Route 2, was called to Detroit, Mich., today by the death of his mother there. Funeral services and burial will take place in Detrot. C. C. Hale, 623 South Sprigg Street, is another son of the deceased. Then I looked into published obit indexes and found the clipping of E. Harry Hale's death. I want you to have it as it proves this is Stephen & Agnes' son but is also lists more brother and sister's names as well as a half-borther as survivors...so-o-o his mother remarried! I could look up marriage date for all members of the HALE familiy if you want but it requires a trip to the Cape County Court House in Jackson, MO. Please send me your address so I can send the obit to you - also email me what other information you need. I cannot find Stephens death or obit. I wish you had an exact date of death! Blessings, Ruth at kastenre@ldd.net