This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/512.1 Message Board Post: Some tidbits of info that may help determine relationships of Edgefield County Ropers: 1. Margaret Getzen mar Hartwell Roper 31 Oct 1839, according to diary of Rev Sam P Getzen, who performed the ceremeony. Rev Sam P Getzen was an older half-brother of Margaret. 2. Margaret Getzen b. 19 June 1816, d. 25 July 1841. 3. 1&2 imply (don't prove) that any children of Margaret and Hartwell Roper would have been born been between June 1840 and July 1841. 4. Katherine Mealing's notes (Augusta Gen Soc) indicate that "Margaret Getzen Roper had heirs," but do not explain this statement. 5. Unless Hartwell could afford a wet nurse and had access to one, the infant child would likely have been found in the household of some female relative for several years after Margaret's death.