Thank you for your help, Edward and Frances were never "married" but she took his last name, probably around 1940-45 when my mother was born. Edward adopted my mother's older sister barbard fairchild- I have the divorce papers when frances divorced fairchild- This marriage was something that was NEVER mentioned. I rember and older cousin, Dede asking her about it about a year before my granddmother passed away and my cousin who was ill and preparing for her own suicide, we now know, my grandmother wouldn't speak to her about it. It upset my grandmother so much that I damn near knocked my cousins' teeth down her throat. I happened upon the divorce decree while looking through a box of old pictures. Thankfully I knew to take the picture out of the frame and the decree fell out- I believe that it was it was dated after my mother was born. I did find the Rickamer family on the 1930 census for broome co. but it was spelled Rickemer and it did list all of the family members- but none of them were listed in the 1920 census, there was a martin M. rickoner who's year of birth was 1 year off from martin rickemer's listed in 1930?