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/hMB.2ACI/907.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much for your good help, John. I just posted this message to the Missouri Census Look-Up site: Hello! I'm trying to find Missouri census records for a Daisy Phoebe Gray, who would have been born about 1880, but I'm not sure of the location in Missouri. From 1920 Federal Census Records, I have learned that her father was born in Wisconsin, and her mother in Missouri. In 1903 she was living in Washington State and had her first child. Her husband at that time was James William Coombes, who was born in Massachusetts in about 1868. They had 8 children together. The story goes that Daisy and James W. Coombes lived in Missouri before moving to Washington, and that one day an intruder who was a relative of Jesse James broke into their Missouri home and asked Daisy to hide him, because he was running from the law. She refused, and he pulled a gun on her. Hearing what was going on from the bathroom where he was shaving and had a gun, her husband came out and shot the intruder dead. Daisy and James were afraid the James gang would come to get them, but they didn't, because Daisy was somehow related to them and they had a policy of not killing their own family members. I have run this story past Eric James, of the Jesse James historical site, and he knows nothing about this story, but is interested. There is a Gray family line in the James line. One would think a newspaper article about this shooting would exist somewhere? The other story I have heard is that either Daisy or her mother was a full-blooded Cherokee woman. Daisy's children's names were Phoeby R., Theodore H. R., Fredericka Josephina, Daisy D. D., Homer J. W., Elmina E., James Marion Cole, and Sidney Coombes. I provide this info in case she may have used names from her family of birth for her children. I wish I knew what all the initials stood for, but I don't. Daisy and her husband were naturopaths, listing themselves both as "physicians" in the 1920 Federal census. Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated. The reason I suggest Clay County as a possible location is because that is where the Jesse James family originated. I have found 3 Daisy Grays listed in the 1880 Federal census who would be about the right age to match the Daisy I am seeking info on, and they are found in Vandalia, Chillicothe, and Union, Missouri. However, none show Wisconsin as the father's birthplace, so I'm stymied... However, I haven't been able to gain access to 1890 records, which would be where Daisy P. Gray would more likely show up, as she might have been born in 1880 after the census records of that year had already been taken. Thanks again, Simone Smith HatsAndHandFans@Yahoo.Com