Barb, Don't have any idea if Mary Ann Chrisman is related to Gonce's family or not. She was b 10 Sep 1838 IN d 1925 Chillicothe, Livingston Co. MO. Her father was James b abt 1818 KY, mother Catherine (?) b abt 1820 OH. My guess is that Catherine's maiden name is either Brant, Wilson, or Chrisman, for the simple fact that the Brants and Chrismans especially intermarried in OH and on into MO. James was in Grundy Co. MO in 1850 Census, with Catherine and listed children besides Mary Ann as: Rebecca J. b abt 1840 IN Elizabeth Ellen "Hettie" b abt 1843 MO d abt 1881 Livingston Co. MO (more in a bit) Hannah b abt 1845 MO Jonathon b abt 1849 MO Hettie was married to William J. WILSON, a brother to my ggg grandfather, Johnathon Thomas WILSON (I'm not used to thinking of him that way, I'll send the story), who was my gg grandmother "Millie" Permilia WILSON's father (and Mary Ann CHRISMAN's husband). Then another of my ggg is another WILSON bro, David William WILSON, who was Millie's husband, Johnathon William WILSON. Confused yet? Three WILSON bros involved. William J., md to Hettie Chrisman; Johnaton Thomas md to Mary Ann Chrisman; and David William. who, while legally married to Catherine BRANT, supposedly had his children with a mysterious "Anna" CHRISMAN, who we can't find to document. Makes you wish that DNA Testing they're talking about would hurry up and get perfected. But then a saying I used to have when someone commented I was crazy, "Hey, my gg grandpa married his first cousin, and his grandson, my grandpappy, was half-Bull" might just be disproved...LOL Grandpa WILSON's mother's maiden name was Bull, BTW. Vonda