Nina I made a marvelous discovery this year, that my maternal grandmother, Margaret S Rex, is one of hundreds of Rex descendants listed in a published book (George Rex Genealogy). That was the plus--the minus is that I have been unable for years to find where or when she died. The book says she and her baby (my father) died in child birth (not true). She was born in Ohio ca 1872 and married my grandfather, Edward Ward, in Dec 1892 in Steubenville Ohio. They lived in Toronto Ohio at least until the birth of my father in 1896. She died some time shortly thereafter. I have a copy of a page in death notices of a probate court that says a Margaret S Ward died in Sistersville WV in Feb 1896 of typhoid fever but I have not been able to obtain any kind of confirmation of that death from Sistersville or from the West Virginia division of Culture and history. Any suggestions of where to go next? jack ward jackw1@flash.net