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/HKB.2ACI/2098.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I had noticed the marriage record and the birth of a daughter in 1868. But then William is apparently dead by 1870 as Lydia (25) and her daughter, Alice M (2) are listed on the 1870 back in her fathers household in Marshall Co. In 1880 they are listed in the household of Green Washington Wright and his wife (Lydia's sister) Nancy Gresham Harris. They are listed as Elizabeth (33) and Maud (12). I don't know about the WJ and JW being two different men, possible I guess. On the Soldiers and Sailors system it lists JW as an alternate name for WJ. The muster rolls for the 34th only list Wm J, Chesley, and Henry Jerome Bowen. There is a W J Bowden but it does not say whether he was killed. This can be found on the Tippah County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mscivilw/muster34.html I also had an ancestor who served in Co I of the 34th. It was known as Bowen's Rebels, named for Henry Jerome Bowen who was their Captain. My ancestor was John Henderson Freeman who left a Civil War diary that can be found on the web by typing in his name. He was in the fight at Perryville and describes it in his diary and he mentions Bowens several times thru out the diary but not Wm J. I am past commander and now adjutant of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp in Tate County. We have been trying to identify all veterans buried in the county and would love to have more info on Wilber.