This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reid, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GKB.2ACE/1719.1 Message Board Post: Linda, thanks for this information about James C., Newton and Mary Smith in Douglas Co. I've tried unsuccessfully to trace Mary's whereabouts about her first husband, William MC Reid, died in April 1866. I assumed that she remarried since she was only about 28 when she was widowed, but I haven't found any marriage records for a Mary Reid that seems to match her. May I ask the source of your information that she remarried to a Stephens? Did she remarry in Douglas Co? And when you say that Mary "signed for her brother" James in the context of civil war records, what do you mean by that? Thanks, John Reid P.O. Box 7164 Libertyville IL 60048