Thanks so much for adding more information to what little I have. This is like looking for a bunch of needles in a haystack but at least I'm finding some of them! So this must be the person I have as Elisa Galpin? I wonder if for some reason Samuel ended up with the nickname Pete. That doesn't explain how the name Mary got interchanged with Eliza but stranger things have happened. The Kansas locations make sense. The youngest child, James Arthur, was in Coffeyville for a while which is also in Montgomery County. They later moved to Kansas City, MO where he died in the county poorhouse. I just pulled up James' death certificate online and to my surprise, his father's name is shown as John, not Jasper! His mother's information is all "unknown" so no help there. Jasper had a brother named John. The death information was given by James' daughter. However, James' wife's father was also named John (Jones) so it's possible the daughter made a mistake and gave her maternal grandfather's name instead of her paternal grandfather's name. James' brother Isaac Newton Galpin's d.c. shows father as Jasper Galpin, mother as Palina/Polina Benett born in Harrison County, MO. This assumes that James really is Isaac's brother and not the son of a John Galpin. The informant for Isaac's d.c. is his wife. The Kansas locations still make sense even if Isaac and James were cousins instead of brothers. The further I go the worse it gets. I wonder how difficult it would be to get Jasper's death certificate from Kansas? On the other hand that may not be necessary. I had a wonderful experience at Fort Dodge getting records on some of my relatives who lived and died there. If the National Military Home at Leavenworth still exists or if their records are around somewhere they would probably have everything one could want in them. Vanette In a message dated 6/11/2008 8:43:08 A.M. Central Daylight Time, genfreak@pacbell.net writes: Info on Eliza Jane Galpin: Eliza Jane 'Janie' Galpin m. Samuel L Harlow. You can find them in Elk Co, KS in 1900 (indexed as Jennie) and then in Independence, Montgomery Co, KS from 1910 - 1930. The children listed on various rootsweb databases for Mary Jane Galpin & Pete Harlow appear to be the children of Janie & Samuel. Eliza Jane Galpin Harlow has been transcribed on ancestry census records as anything from Jennie E, Janie E, to Elina Jone Harlow. **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)