I'm trying to solve a puzzle involving these surnames. My gg-grandmother, Irena Margaret NEIGHBARGER, was married to James GRIFFITH by 1850. They didn't have any children in the 1850 Licking census. By the time of the 1860 census, Irena was married to my gg-grandfather, Valentine SPAWR, and living in Kansas. They had daughters born in 1858 and 1859 but there was no evidence of older children. I learned from an LDS Ancestral File that Irena and James GRIFFITH had two children, Amanda, born about 1850, and James, born about 1852. I assumed that Irena's husband and children (GRIFFITH) had all died before she married my gg-grandfather (SPAWR). However, when I made contact with another descendant of Irena not long ago, he said that his grandmother mentioned two step-children. I started looking for Amanda and James GRIFFITH again. I just found in my "possible relatives" file a message I received from Gloria (GALBINAK) a year ago about the 1860 Licking Co. census. She found an Amanda NEIBARGER, age 9, in the household of Sanford and Tabitha PRIEST. I know that several NEIGHBARGERS married PRIESTS. Now I think that it's very possible that Irena's daughter Amanda was raised by relatives after Irena's marriage to James GRIFFITH ended and Irena moved to Illinois and then Kansas with my gg-grandfather. If it is the same Amanda, her last name was changed to Irena's maiden name, NEIBARGER/NEIGHBARGER. This is a long and complicated story, and I may not be telling it very well, but I'm hoping someone will look at it and come up with something new. Laurel Busch LSBusch@accutek.com http://www.accutek.com/~lsbusch/family6.htm