This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brassfield Lamson Ryan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CCC.2ACE/2473 Message Board Post: I am researching my g grandmother Lucy Ann Brassfield Usher Lamson Ryan. Timeline for Lucy Ann Brassfield: 1842 Lucy is born in Grundy County, MO (date of birth could be 1840) (place of birth often shown as TN) She is the daughter of Major Onthal Minter Brassfield and Jane Splawn. 1855 Lucy marries Alexander Usher in Wright County IA (first marriage in Wright County) 1865 Lucy marries James Hartley Lamson from NY, probably in MN 1866 Lucy has first child, Cora Maybelle Lamson in Ramsey County MN 1874 Lucy has second child, Phelan Leroy Lamson, probably in IA 1877 Lucy leaves Concordia Kansas on wagon train bound for Oregon, she is about eight months pregnant. (apparently without James H. Lamson, or he dies on the trail, but never arrives in Oregon) 1877 Lucy has third child, Sara Jane Lamson, near Ft. Kearney KS 1877 Lucy arrives in Walla Walla area (possibly Weston, OR) 1877/78 Lucy puts two daughters with other families in Amity OR (Sara Jane Lamson becomes Minnie Maud Sibbets) 1879 Lucy marries Thomas Ryan in Walla Walla WA (4 Sep 1879) 1880 Lucy is shown on Umatilla County Federal census (Blue Mountain/Weston) with Thomas Ryan and all three children. 1891 Thomas Ryan leaves for Idaho, is possibly killed in an accident in 1892. 1896 Lucy is one of several heirs to father's estate, she is living in Meacham, OR 1894-98 Lucy buys and sells real estate in Meacham OR 1899 Lucy divorces Thomas Ryan for abandonment (Umatilla County OR) 1900 Lucy sells lot in Weston OR to daughter Cora, signs doc as Lucy Ryan. This is the last record I have found for Lucy. Apparently she remarries, moves somewhere else, dies, something! In 1900, following the census, Cora and John Brassfield move from Weston to Walla Walla. NOTE: Cora's mother Lucy is a Brassfield of the Othnal Minter branch of the family. Cora marries John W. Brassfield, of the Dennis Michael T. branch of the family. In about 1906/7 Cora and John, with 10 children move to the Puyallup area where they are shown on the 1910 census. Thanks for any information you can provide. John Brassfield