This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bledsoe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CMB.2ACE/633.1.1 Message Board Post: Lanita, Thanks for replying. I agree that Josiah & Catherine must have died. I am intrigued by the probate records for Wiley in 1874. I do not have a death date for him. I am intrigued, though, because Elizabeth, Wiley's wife, is listed as the head of household in the 1870 census. Could you give me additional information (or point me in the right direction) for Wiley's probate records? For clarification sake, Josiah's children were living with their grandparents (Wiley & Elizabeth were Josiah's parents), not an older brother. Thank you for checking all those sources for me.