This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riley/Benoist/Sanguinet/Durhing Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WMB.2ACE/4585.2.1 Message Board Post: Dear Rose, Thank you so much for your response. I have many questions and only a few answers. Which Sanguinet is your direct ancestor? Mine is Marie Catherine, mother of Adeline Josephine. Where did you discover Josephine Amanda b. abt 1846? I missed her in the 1850 census. Did you find the James M. Riley and Josephine Riley family in the 1860 census? I could not locate them, yet I knew they were in St. Louis due to city directory records. I did find Josephine Amanda named as baptismal sponsor or godparent to William L. Riley's children: James Harold (b. 1862) and Blanche (b. 1865) Riley, baptized at ST. James the Greater Church. For Blanche, Henry P. Durhing was also a sponsor. I didn't know who they were! Thank you! As for William L., his wife Susan Horine Riley divorced him in Jefferson Co. in 1872. She was from there and she and William owned land at Horine Station. He did not show up at the court proceedings for the divorce. In 1876, he was delinquent on his land taxes, but he could have been dead and Jeff Co. didn't have the news. I could not find him in the federal 1870 census, but in the St. Louis City census of 1870, I found him living with his father, brother Augustus and Isabelle, and his 8 yr old son, James Harold, my great grandfather, then separated from his wife, Susan. I have checked the online cemeteries in St. Louis--Catholic and non, but haven't found him. He could be buried in Clay County, Mo, his birthplace (I doubt it) or Jefferson Co. where he owned land, but I doubt that also. He could possibly be buried in Ironton, Mo. There were some Benoists* living there and my great grandfather used to visit there regularly. Do you have any idea where Adeline Josephine Benoist Riley is buried? I have checked Calvary in the Benoist, Sanguinet and Riley plots, and no luck. *Have you traced Thomas Benoist who was a noted aviator who lived in Ironton and St. Louis? Again, I have more questions than I haave answers. If you want the ancestors of James M. Riley back to 1653, I could share them, also I have a fair bit on Adeline's Benoist's line. Many thanks, Kathy