This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FgWBAEB/641.1.1 Message Board Post: Melissa, thank you so much! What I'd really like to know and, if posssible, have copies of the licenses for his, my great grandfather's, first two marriages to Maria Dougherty and Myra Abbott. And to see if there were any children. of either or both of those marriages. I am thinking that there mights have been and that, perhaps, the parents of his young wives took care of the children after their daughters died. There is no evidence of them where he lived later in Illinois. His third marriage was to Nancy Etheridge who was my great-grandmother. These were the marriages that i'd like to know more about. If you can help I would appreciate it very much. Thank you for the offer. spouse: Dougherty, Maria (*1842 - 1862) - m. 1861 in Paola, Kansas spouse: Abbott, Myra (*1843 - 1868) - m. 1862 in Ft. Scott, Kansas spouse: Etheridge, Nancy Malinda Jane (1850 - 1923) - m. 19 AUG 1869 in Marion Co, Illinois