Thank you all for your quick responses. I am very disappointed to hear that there are no marriage records for this time period. I have already searched the Hempstead County courthouse (I live nearby) for information, and I haven't found any clue that would lead me to the first name of Lucetta's mysterious Mr Clark (my great-great grandfather). Lucetta Green married Thomas John Kent January 17, 1867 in Hempstead County, Arkansas. Their first child, Charles H. Kent, was born in Arkansas in 1868. Their second child Lucetta Kent was born in Texas in 1872, and their third child, John Kent, was born in Texas in 1874. I assume that Thomas John Kent died between conception of last Kent child -John, in 1873, and the marriage of Lucetta to a Mr. Clark sometime prior to July of 1878. Linnie Clark was born April 30, 1879 in Texas. So that gives me a window of approximately 5 years- 1873-1878. On the 1880 Wise County Texas census, Lucetta, the three Kent children and my great grandmother Linnie Clark are living with Lucetta's sister- Margaret F. Green Dickson. Next door is the Jessie B. Clark family. For all I know, Lucetta might not have lived for any great period of time in Wise County. She might have been in another county, and moved to her sister's house when her last husband died. It was a long shot to think she might have married in Wise County, but I was hoping!! Lucetta & kids all moved back to Arkansas (Howard County) by about 1883 when she met her third and last husband, Otto Schaal. I will have to make a trip to Wise County to check out land & tax records & maybe a probate record for Thomas Kent and/or Mr. Clark. Thanks again for your suggestions, Terri