This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Card Ailport Hill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3RB.2ACE/436 Message Board Post: My great grandfather Alonzo Card was born and raised in Owego, Tioga county. All the online genealogies state that he married a Mary A. ? abt 1871-1872 in NY and had four children there before moving to Michigan. In the 1880 census of Mecosta county Michigan, an Alonzo Card and family (Mary A., children - Minnie, Maggie, Martha and John) are found stating all were born in NY.) If this Alonzo is my great grandfather then there is a problem. He also appears in the 1880 Decatur, Macon county Illinois census as single and without children. I also have his marriage document from St. Patricks Catholic church of Decatur in 1885 showing he married a Mary Hill on 13 January 1885. The 1900 Decatur, Macon county Illinois census has he and Mary claiming to be married for 20 years (circa 1880) and that their son, John was born in 1882. My grandfather told the story that he ran away from home when he was nine because he didn't like his stepmom Mary Hill. Of course, if my grandfather John ! is the son of the first Mary A. Card, then he would have been nine in 1885, about the time Alonzo and Mary Hill married. I need to find documentation of this first marriage to see if the Alonzo Card who married Mary A.? is actually the son of George H. Card and Lydia M. Ailport, my g. g. grandparents.