I can help with the Grierson one.  The county should be Custer County which is just south of Miles City, Montana. The town name does not match anything on the 1895 map and in the 1900 census the family is living in Township #6. They seemed to move around quite a bit.  The two eldest children (Elizabeth and James) were born in New York, then the family was back in Scotland for the 1881 census where two more children (Mary and Henry) were born.  By 1900, John Grierson was farming in Montana with two sons and his eldest daughter.  ----- Jo-Ann Croft  ----- Original Message ---- > From: Diana Henry <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, October 6, 2010 7:32:24 AM > Subject: [WIG LIST] M'GAUL/M'LEAN/BAIRD-GRIERSON > > >From Wigtown Free Press 29th April 1886 > >> "At Bechelau, Caster Co., Montana, U.S.A. on the 6th inst., Grace Baird, wife >>of >> > John Grierson, aged 34 years." > > Some of these place names were hard to read, perhaps someone can correct them?