In a message dated 10/18/2004 10:32:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, catgalvin@yahoo.com writes: > my husband's g-g-g-grandmother ALICIA JULIA HYDE in the Cleveland Directory > in 1865-66. She is a boarder at 273 Columbus and is unmarried--, no > profession is listed. My great grandmother was single and living in Cleveland, approximately about the same time. She had come from Ireland to live with a relative who ran a boarding house after all of her family had died. She probably would not have had a profession listed as she most probably helped out at the boarding house until she married in 1873. I have been unsuccesful in finding her living here in Cleveland prior to the 1880 census. I know she was here. I just can't find her. There could be numerous reasons for your g-g-g grandmother living alone in Cleveland at that time. Ceal