This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WMB.2ACE/4591.1 Message Board Post: Maybe William was a member of the Odd Fellows. Do you have his obituary? Are there any other Lanes buried there? The 1930 census shows a William H Lane family living in St. Francois County. This William's father was born in Tennessee. Maybe they were married in Tennessee because William had relatives there. Any possiblity that they were married on a river boat and the marriage was recorded at the place where the boat was normally docked. How do you know that they lived and died in St. Louis? Looked at the index for 1930 and there are no William W. Lanes in St. Louis. Of the two without middle initials, they seem to be too young-one is 24 and the other is 27. Have you found William on any of the censuses? Georgia