This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pearce, Peek Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZMB.2ACI/1672 Message Board Post: I am needing help finding information about my grandmother Minnie Almira Peek, she married John LIncoln Pearce 1898 in Christian county, Missouri, in 1900 they were living in Greene county, Missouri. Have been unable to find any information about MInnie prior to that marriage, the census states she was born in Micnigan, her death certificate gives her birthdate as October 25, 1880, she died in 1918 in Longmont, Colorado., in 1910 she was living in Greeenwood County, Kansas. Family story is she was full cherokee, that John took off a reservation or another story is she was living in an orphanage and ran away. Both stories say she was full Cherokee and also she was only 15 when they married, but if her birth date is correct she would have been 18. Have been unable to find out how long John was living in Christian County, when they married, in the 1880 census he was in the Leavenworth Jail in Kansas, his parents were Jesse B. Pearce and Isabel Johnson Marshall, they were living in Franklin County Kansas in the 1880 census. Looking for any kind of help or clues to find out more about Minnie or at least how long John and Minnie lived in Christian County before they married.