This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: elliott,alden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0VB.2ACI/256.3875.3882.3936.5105.1 Message Board Post: My gggrandmother, Louisa A. Elliott, born 12-16-1824 in Rowan/Davie Co NC, died 2-11-1917 in Gutherie Co IA Father: A. Elliott Mother: Margaret Alden (above from death records in Guthrie Co Iowa) My family history describes Louise leaving NC in the 1840's with an elder brother to go to IL where she became a schoolteacher and married my gggrandfather, James W. Foster in Anderson IN in 1848. Louise and James emigrated to Iowa in 1855 and she lived there till age 92. So far - it sounds like your picture is of my Louise (Leueazer) and that her mother, Margaret traveled to MO with her family after Louise had left home.