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/GMB.2ACE/689.1 Message Board Post: There are no county/state birth records that early. In Paxton's "Annals of Platte Co., MO." there is the mention of Silas Holder dies(13 Sept.? 1874); widow, Alice J. and two children- Eva M. and Sarah M.(p. 586) Gary Conwell