This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hess, Marshall, Gibson, Higgins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BMB.2ACE/1196 Message Board Post: have a request that involves 3 counties, Nodaway, Worth and Gentry. I am trying to figure out if Mary Hess, living in J J Gibson's 1880 Worth county household is related to the Marshall family living in that same county-1870 through 1880. In addition, I know that Mary Marshall was married to Paulus Hess in Nodaway county, in October 1876. There is a Marshall couple living there(Nodaway county) that I think she might have been living with before her marriage. They were Frank and Louisa(Louise) Marshall. They moved to Racine Wisconsin after 1870 and before 1880. I have found them to have had a son c. 1879 in Wisconsin. That son was Everette. (NOTE: my grandmother, Mary Alice Marshall Higgins, had a daughter Lulu, a son Everette and one named Frank. That is why I think there is strong evidence that this is the Uncle she was living with before her marriage-what I now know to be her first marriage to Paulus Hess). I believe this Mary Marshall, to be my great grandmother, Mary Alice Marshall Higgins. Frank Marshall states that his father was born in Pa, his mother Ohio(later on New Jersey) and that he was born in Ohio. I haven't been able to find him before 1870, anywhere. The second family that I am interested in is the Robert Marshall family that was from originally Perry co., Ohio(up to 1858 or so), then first was living in Gentry county(c. 1860), but ended up in Worth county--living several miles away from JJ Gibson. I believe Robert and his wife, Sarah, died between 1870 and 1880, where I find his son, Watson, living in what I presume to be their family farm. There son, Joseph R Marshall, is living between Watson and J J Gibson, in the same general area. I was wondering if any one out there is researching this Marshall family? I have yet been able to fit Frank Marshall into the Robert Marshall family, but if my family history that was told to me was correct, and these are my kin-then they should be connected in some way. We were always told that Mary Alice Marshall, was born in October 1861. Her father died shortly before or after in the civil war and that her mother died around 1865. She was subsequently raised first by her grandmother, then an Aunt. I think that Frank and Louise Marshall are her aunt and uncle, but have strong suspicions that Robert and Sarah should be her grandparents. If the story was accurate. If anyone is researching any of these families, please write to at sdwillia@mcmsys.com or respond to the website. It should be noted that I think J J Gibson, is my great grandfather, J J Higgins. I believe they married c. 1881 or and moved to Mercer county, Missouri around that time. My oldest great uncle, Berthold Higgins, was born in Lineville, Iowa in April 1882. Thanks so much, Susan Williams