Is anyone willing to do a lookup for me (I'll gladly pay for your time) ... My local history center is brand new and after weeks of waiting, I find they haven't even ordered census materials yet. Additionally, the state library in Wisconsin evidently was swamped with requests and isn't able to handle them until some time after the first of the year. What I'm specifically looking for are obituary notices. One would be for the above (gr-gr-gr grandmother) Nanse An Beedle, b 6/23/1792 d 7/10/1869 in Juneau WI. Other Juneau Co WI obituaries would have been in 1880. In the census that year were the following persons: Frank Beedle, 24; Nellie Beedle, 18; Adelbert Beedle, 2; and living with them Gertrude, 27; Charles, 7; Maggie M, 5; William, 4 (son of Gertrude); Martha J., "died" NOTE THAT THE "DIED" AFTER MARTHA J BEEDLE'S NAME WAS ON THE CENSUS in place of an "age"! I've never seen such a thing, and as this was simply sent to me by someone who had jotted it down, I don't know what the day was that this census was taken. However, I do know that four of Charles and Gertrude Beedle's five children died within a week of each other. I am guessing that baby Martha was the first to die and that within a week, all of the others on that census had died of diptheria except Frank Beedle and his sister-in-law Gertrude. The reason that I believe this, is that my great-granduncle Charles Walter Beedle lived to be 97, and on his 90th birthday there was a write-up in the Spokane WA paper stating that he had had four of his five children die within a week of each other, in Wisconsin before he'd moved to WA. I am guessing that the reason Gertrude and these four children were living with Frank and his wife & child, was because they were all quarantined. The fact that Martha had just died (per the census taker) leads me to believe that the census happened to be taken during the week that these babies were dying of diptheria (per the newspaper article, sixty years later). Since Frank was having children with another wife, by 1886, I am guessing that his first wife, Nellie, and their baby Adelbert (possibly misspelled: I'm suspecting it may have been Adelbirl or Aldebert) also died of diptheria during that period. So ... what I would be searching for would be either cemetery records or obituary notices for Nellie (18), Adelbert (2), Charles (7), Maggie (5), William (4) or Martha M. Beedle. Thanks for taking time to read this ... And has anyone ever seen "died" in place of an age on a census, before?!! Sincerely; Barbara Weaver