This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kenney, VanGilder, VanGelder Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZaB.2ACE/1286.1.1 Message Board Post: I would be so grateful if you could find ANYTHING about Elizabeth. I have in my records that she could have been buried 16 Dec 1891, but I am not sure where I got that, I believe from a distant cousin who is related to her also. So perhaps you could find an obituary? I could do Massachusetts research for you in return if you need any, but also will pay for postage and copies! I also have info that "Elizabeth J. VanGelder married Joseph Knowlton of Roulet Feb 3, 1868 in Coudersport" from a historian for Potter County PA from newspaper excerpts. Elizabeth's first husband (Ira VanGilder) died in the Civil War and then she have up her youngest daughter Amy who is my great-great grandmother, because she had no money. She had no proof of his death in the South and so she couldn't file for his pension. Amy was adopted by a family who had no children. This makes it all the more difficult for me since Amy was not raised by her mother. Elizabeth according to the 1850 census wa! s born in VA. That's basically all I know. I hope that you can help!