Hi! While "playing" with the Civil War Pension records that Linda shared with us the other day, I was side-tracked for many hours by the discovery of a couple of marriage records that caught my attention. I have asked before about William R. Van Norman, born ca. 1806 in Massachusetts on this mailing list, as he appeared to have separated from his first wife Elvira / Almira Perrine, born ca. 1809 NY. In the 1870 census, he appears in Aurora, Waushara Co., Wisconsin with what appears to be a new wife Eliza, and [step] daughter Harriet, while his first wife is listed in the same town enumerated with their daughter Abbie (Abigail) Eldred and her young family. I found a marriage record for a William Vannorman to Eliza Cady (nee Fairfield) on 21 Nov. 1868 in Green Lake, Wisconsin which matches the 1870 census information. [plus found 1860 census for Alvin & Eliza "Cody" with a daughter Harriet the right age] Found on: beta.familysearch.org - The index to Eliza's 1898 death is also there. The interesting part was that his parents were listed as Jacob & Lydia Vannorman. This has to be Jacob Truman Van Ornum & his wife Lydia Sawyer. The original information that I had for their son William, has turned out to be in error, mixed up with William R.'s son Lyman's information. (so someone had obviously made the connection before me) Someone had originally stated that William R's parents were Isaac & Agnes Van Norman - but I have never uncovered any evidence to this, and my query to this list brought nothing about his parentage either. So, unless someone else has a better idea, I'm now adding William R. to the Jacob and Lydia (Sawyer) Van Norman / Van Ornum etc. family! Stephen