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/RRB.2ACE/365.2.1 Message Board Post: Dear Mary Beth, Mary Anna Rasey is my great grandmother. She married John Ferguson and moved to a claim near Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas in 1872. Mary's brother Arch made a visit and came down with typhoid fever. He recovered, but John caught the disease and died, leaving Mary a widow at age 18. Her neighbor Charles Yeomans looked after her and eventually proposed marriage which Mary refused. Several years later Charles proposed again and she accepted and they were married 15 Dec 1875 at Hutchinson, Kansas. Mary's daughter Blanche married Cleland McBurney, and is my grandmother, and her son Edward (named after Edward Arnold Rasey) is my father. The Yeomans family is having a reunion this summer, and your research would be very much enjoyed adding to our family history. Sincerely.........Cleland