This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilson McCortney Brooks Paradis St. Germain Wood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UNB.2ACI/808.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, to take so long in responding, I had to dig to get my info. According to the records that I have found - Nancy McCortney parents were indeed Alexander and Nancy Ball. But, here is the mystery and I hope your aunts remember something about it. You see, records show that after James McCortney was killed in the civil war, Nancy remarried Thomas Brooks...then I find a few different records that says Nancy died in 1877. Most records say she died in Pulaski, one says she died in Putnam? I haven't been able to find a Putnam. But, here's the part that makes no sense...if Nancy died in 1877, then why do I find the Nancy Brooks family alive and well in the 1880 Cooke County, Texas census? I can only surmise that 1. The death record is incorrect. 2. Her death was faked 3. It's not the same Nancy in texas, as James Madison Wilson had a sister named Nancy who may have married Brooks after Nancy #1 died, but in the census it states that the Wilson children are hers , and a couple of the Brooks children are step children. Doe's anyone know the true death date of Nancy McCortney Wilson Brooks? If it's any help to you the Wilson kids from the marriage later migrated to Graham OK, and later onto Idaho. Graham used to be called Pickens and was Indian Territory when they lived there. And I also found alot of Wilsons in Cook County, I don't remember if there were any McCortneys or not. Anything you can help with would be greatly appreciated.....Rea