This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ellis, Wimberly, Hooker, Churchill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kNB.2ACI/1629 Message Board Post: I'm looking for descendants of Asa E. Ellis (1817-1898) and Mary "Polly" Wimberly (1818-1893). They had 8 children and lived in Texas County, MO until Asa left for the Calif. Gold Rush in 1850. I'm trying to find out if he divorced Mary "Polly" or if he just left (he remarried in Calif & had another family). Did Mary "Polly" move back to Lincoln County, MO? I have seen references to his leaving her a lumber mill. Know anything about that? I'm descended from their daughter, Elizabeth, who lived her adult life in neighboring Laclede County.