This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DARROW, AMES, CHUCHE, NAGEL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/4361.4362.2.1 Message Board Post: I am showing Maria Sophia DARROW m. Homer Adelbert AMES 28 April 1873 in Glasco, Cloud County, Kansas. Here is her obit (in Kansas, newspaper not noted): MRS. MARIA S. AMES Word has been received by relatives of the death of Mrs. Maria S. Ames, at her home in San Rafael, CA., Nov. 14, 1926. Miss Maria S. Darrow was born in Sinclairville, Chautauqua Co., New York, June 8, 1854. The fall of 1870, Miss Darrow and her parents came to Kansas and settled on a farm east of Asherville. Miss Darrow gathered together a band of pioneer children and taught a school in Asherville. In the fall of 1873, Miss Maria Darrow was married to Mr. Homer Adelbert Ames, at Glasco, Kansas. To this union, one daughter, Clara, was born. Mr. and Mrs. Ames homesteaded a farm northeast of Beloit. They resided on this farm until 1888 when they moved to California. Mrs. Ames is survived by one granddaughter, Mrs. Eva Chuche, two great-grandchildren, Howard and June Chuche, two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Vernon of Simpson, Ks., and Mrs. Esther Chapel of Woodston, Ks., and a number of ther relatives and friends. Funeral services were held over the remains Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 16. 1926, and interment was made beside her husband and daughter of that place. I am showing: Clara m. James Patrick KENNY (son of James & Ellen KENNY). They had one daughter, Eva C. b. 16 May 1901 d. 1922) Eva m. 1) Joseph CHUCHE b. 1898 d. 1922. They had two children-Howard F. b. 13 Dec 1918 and d. 2 Apr 1975 and June b. abt. 1920 m. 2) William Edward COZAD b. abt 1886. d? m. 3) Howard L. NAGLER b. 1895 d. 1976. I come down from Maria's brother, Russel Homer DARROW.