hi again rita, one more question, i saw the 1900 census at the buckhannon library and i believe there were only two riley households listed. george and john riley. could you verify this for me? i've lost the household of melissa fanny riley:) her husband died between the 1880 and 1900 census and it appears she remarried to james humphreys but i believe they must have divorced. will have to get a lookup to see if he was divorced at the time of marriage to rebecca foster. i was pretty confused so this is helpful. i figured the reason i couldn't find her in 1900 was because she was in the humphrey household. now it sounds like she wasn't in upshur at all unless...new idea! if there is no malissa fanny riley maybe there is a melissa fanny humphrey? if you could just verify for me that she isn't on this census under those two names it would be a great help! i am going to upshur next month and hopefully will get to the courthouse and library. until then you all that do the lookups are very much appreciated!!!!!! ---------- > From: Rita Goodwin <rgoodwin@westok.net> > To: WVUPSHUR-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WVUPSHUR-L] 1900 upshur census lookup please > Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999 5:30 PM > > from the book 1900 Census Upshur County, West Virginia by Lemoyne Wolfe & > Karon King, page 50. > > Buckhanon Corporation > Household #173 > James Humphres 08/1875 24 WV WV WV > Rebecca 10/1880 19 WV WV WV > > Notes by authors: Married l yr, O children, (nee Rebecca Foster) HH-day > laborer > > I checked the marriage book for that time period and no James Humphres is > listed, nor is there a Rebecca Foster. The only other book I have covering > that time is the Upshur County death records and I didn't find them there. > > Rita Goodwin >