This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Edwards Hall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VBC.2ACI/1298 Message Board Post: I am trying to sort out an interesting problem. On Nov 24, 1880, Mary E. Edwards, d/o William Edwards, married Valentine D. Hall in Hanover County (from the marriage register). She was 23 and single. In the same register, I find Elizabeth E. Edwards (actually Mary Elizabeth Ellen Edwards) marrying Silas Askew on December 22, 1881. She is 24 and the daughter of William and Lucinda Edwards. She is listed as single, not a widow. I cannot find Valentine Hall after the 1880 census, which was completed before he was married that year. My question is: Is this the same Mary Edwards and did she actually marry twice in just over a year? I don't find a grave listing for Valentine Hall and don't have a date of death. I was up at Shiloh Church last week looking at the graves and have yet to answer this question. Valentine Hall is a grandson of Thompson Hall, via Warner Hall, and Mary Elizabeth Ellen Edwards is a granddaughter of Thompson Hall via Loucinda Hall, who married William Edwar! ds. If this is the same woman, they would be first cousins which wasn't that unusual at that time.