This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nMB.2ACI/61.1 Message Board Post: Brandy, The only information I have in my Family Treemaker file is that Mary Wells (whom I have down as Mary E. Wells) was born in Kentucky on March 25, 1823 and died July 14, 1883 in Burbois Township, Gasconade Co, MO. Cause of death, dysentery, complications billious fever; duration of complications and desease, 2 weeks. She shows up in the 1850 and 1860 US Census in Wayne Co, Illinois and the 1855 and 1865 Illinois census in the same county. Sorry I don't have any more at this time; I'm still in the fairly beginning stages of gathering information on the family tree. A bit of my early stuff was not very well documented. Hope this is something that you don't have and can use. At least it points to somewhere in Kentucky. James Hardy married her around 1849 as you indicated, and he had been in Illinois at least since 1830 (according to the census). I would suspect that, consequently, Mary Wells must have been there as well during that time. You might do some searching around either Wayne or White counties in Illinois for the Wells family to see if there are any leads. Good luck to you. If I come across anything further, I'll give you a holler!!! Bob