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/CFC.2ACI/1005.1 Message Board Post: Kathy, I have looked in my marriage books (Wirt, Roane, Jackson, Calhoun, Harrison and Lewis Counties) for any reference to a Thomas Showalter marriage to a Simons. No luck. I also check the Wirt Co. Census (1850, 60, 70) and on-line 1880 for any reference to them. No luck. No reference to them in the Wirt and Roane Co. Deaths and the same -- no luck. It doesn't mean they weren't married in Wirt, just no reference in the books. Sorry, Dick W.