I've posted surnames about every place I can on the internet for several years and have yet to receive a reply, except from a few who asked for my info. It doesn't seem possible that my great grandmother, Clara HAMPTON, could have evaporated into thin air after her husband, Levi, died in Fairfield IA in Feb 1882. She was only about 25-26 yrs. old. No re-marriage can be found in any of the records there, nor death record, the little home she had was being sold in Nov 1882 for non-payment of taxes (less than $1.50), and she gave up two of her three children that I know of for adoption. I've read old newspapers of that era, searched everything available in the court house, personally and with help of a professional genealogist, and can't find a trace of her. I tracked her mother, Emily STIDGER, from Ohio to Indian Territory and found her death record in 1893, but can't find an obit on her to see if Clara survived her. I finally found Clara's brother, Harmon STIDGER, died in Ohio in 1926. I got his obituary and it did not name a sister, Clara. I checked the cemetery records and the burial plot to see names of everyone buried around him, no one but his wife and children are buried there. I have an obit on another brother who died in TX - no mention of Clara. Apparently I'm the only one interested in this family and have gotten discouraged with posting names to a roll call. ja