Hi Folks: I know I have an almost impossible task....We have been researching on and off for 28 years to find some link to the above Mary Lee Wise.. According to her, she was born July 18, 1869 in Missouri. Somehow she came to Lebanon, Ky area with or without her parents and was raised in that area, but at least for part of that time was raised by a family named Putnam....She was taken into the Catholic Church and sponsored by Ann Spalding when she was 18....No records are found at the church...We went years ago and they said that a fire had destroyed all their records. She was married to Green Moore Dutton at Lebanon Station, Ky on July 19, 1894 and subsequently moved to Russell Co., Ky. Green Moore Dutton ran logs up and down from the Cumberland River area from Tennessee to Lebanon and that is supposedly how they met. Now, we know the history after she married, but cannot find a father or mother for her.....Do ANY of you have any of your WISE family who emigrated to Kentucky (Marion Co.) and could possibly have died and this child was raised by these people, or do any of you have the Spaldings or Putnams as marrying into your family? We have come to the conclusion that she was probably illegitimant and they kept it quiet....Some of her daughters used to tease her about that fact and she used to get really mad. However, she insisted she was born in Missouri.... Marilyn Phelps ljpmap@indy.net