My g-g-g-grandma's name was supposedly Mary READ (REED?). Family lore is that James RALSTON b. 1799 in SCT, emig. to Guernsey Co. some time around 1825-1830 with wife Martha. Martha died, then he married Eliza MATHERS (MATHEWS), who d. . He m. Mary READ and they had a son, my g=g=grandpa William Read RALSTON b. 1851. A few years later Mary, James, and their family moved to Winterset, Madison Co., IA. James had 5 children by 1st wife, 4 children by 2nd, and my g-g-grandpa William by his 3rd wife Mary. According to William's death cert., filled out by his daughter Mabel in 1908, Mary READ was b. in Ireland, so maybe she fits in with the other Irish REED families? Jeannie Smith