This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QEC.2ACE/2224.1.3.1 Message Board Post: Could Francis M. Valentine be Marcellus Valentine? There is a Marcellus in the 1870 and 1880 census, the right age to be Francis. In Ritchie Co. Marriages 1843-1915 there is a Marcelus Valentine, age 28 born in Ritchie Co., living in Wood co., & Elizabeth Eddy 23 born in Ritchie Co., 27 Mar 1888. He is not listed in the Ritchie Co. Cemetry Book. Not sure if this is who you are hunting for.