Hi, listees, Pat, and Guyanoga1, I promised to let you know if I was able to obtain a microfilm of the actual newspaper wedding announcement in the *Western Star* from Penn Yan, that Guyanoga1 referred me to. Finally, Interlibrary Loan was able to come through again! It is *clearly* not "Busse." Her name definitely was Lavina BARSE, unless the reporter got it wrong! The text, missing and mistakes intact, is: "MARRIED.---In Starkey, on the 13th --st. by Rev. Mr. Adgate, Mr. WARREN --ILLS, to Miss LAVINA BARSE, --th of this viliage. [The Printers were --membered.]" The left side is missing about 1-2 letters (cut or torn) from the original that was microfilmed, but the text is very clear as "Barse." I am happy to scan and email a copy to anyone who is researching the family of Warren Mills (or anyone who wants it, actually!). Does the reference to The Printers mean that they received some compensation? Or cake? :) I do believe that the name couldn't be anything else but "Mills," especially because Warren Mills signed, along with many others, an open letter to the "Independent Republicans of the County of Yates" in a later issue (I don't have the issue date for this letter because I messed up the copying for that page from the microfilm). And Warren Mills and John Barse appear next to each other in a list in Lucas County, Ohio in the early 1830s as lot owners. And I found a census record for Warren and Lavina Mills in 1850 in Olean, Cattaraugus County. They have one child at this time, Henry H. (I think it's an "H"), whom I have not found in any family trees. So, I think that it is entirely possible that this Lavina BARSE may be one of the missing 3 of 8 Barse siblings. The age and timing are right, and John BARSE, wife Betsey RANDALL BARSE, and children lived in Yates County after Ontario County, and before the en masse migration to Olean, Cattaraugus Co. Theresa and Rebecca BARSE, two of the siblings, married and lived in Penn Yan. Proven siblings: Rebecca R. Barse m. Abraham Wagener/Wagner; C.V.B. Barse m. Mary Helen Wade; Theresa H. Barse m. William N. Potter; William B. Barse m. Rebecca Pixley (my 3x greatgrandparents); Mary H. Barse m. Stanley Martin. It would be great to add Lavina Barse to the "known" list. Does anyone else have information regarding Lavina BARSE, other than what I have noted above? Is there information out there that would indicate that she could NOT be one of the missing siblings? If not, she's going on my tree as a *possible* with reasoning and caveats. It might also explain why CVB Barse named his son Mills Wagner Barse, after the two brothers-in-law, and why my great uncle named *his *son Mills Miller. Lorraine Allrelated -- "As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies." Iliad, VI.146-150, trans. Lattimore. So, tell me again, why the heck am I raking up all these leaves?