This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FORD, MAY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DNB.2ACI/385 Message Board Post: I am looking for any information on train or other loss-of-life accidents in the 1870s. My ggg grandparents, Elisha M FORD and wife Elizabeth are listed in the 1870 census with their 2 children, Etheline Minerva and Eliza Jane. The children are listed in the 1880 census living with their grandfather Ephraim MAY. The probate file numbers are very close for Elisha and Elizabeth, so some sort of accidental death seems the most likely reason.