This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richards, McFoy, Nicely, Lee, Dotson, Whaley, Vaught, Noland, Edwards, Boice, Sprouse Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CFC.2ACI/748.751.754.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The 1840 census with children's ages under 5 shows an aproximate wedding date of Otho and Rebecca for 1833-1835. Rebecca would have been approximately 21 and Otho would have been in his forties. Wood county census 1840 Virginia page 157 Otho Richards age 50-60, son age 0-5, 2 daughters age 0-5, Rebecca age 20-30 Wirt County, Elizabeth, WV 1850 Census record household 31-31 Otho Richards 67 farmer Va Rebecca 36 Va Druzilla 13 Va Elias 14 Va Mary E. 11 Va Evaline 9 Va Rosetta 6 Va Emily J. 5 Va Victoria 2 Va Their last child together, Dovenor, was born in 1851, Otho must have died after this about 1854 because that is the time that Rebecca remarried to John Nicely. 9-27-1854 Wirt County marriage record, Elizabethtown John Nicely son of John and C. Nicely married Rebecca Richards born in Wood Co., Va daughter of Emmanuel Dodson. Sept. 27 John Nicely 50(Farmer), Widower. Born in Green Co. Pa. Residing in Wirt Co. Va. Parents, John and C. Nicely. Married Rebecca Richards 40, widow. Born in Wood Co. Va. Residing in Wirt Co. Va. Parents, Emanuel Dodson. Enoch Rector Officiated. 1860 Wood county census: Wood county census Fountain Springs 426-423 John Nicely 65 Va farmer Rebecca 31 Virginia John 18 Va Lucetta Richards 14 Va Victoria Richards 11 Va Dovenor Richards 9 Va Elias Richards 24 Va A descendant of Elias Richards, named Bob Richards, believes Otho and Rebecca to be buried in in the Annamoriah Cemetery. I found out at the Calhoun county website that an Annamoriah town is 5 miles from Elizabeth in Calhoun county, where some of the descendants are living. Druscilla Richards married Dominick McFoy (Dominio Forg) 8-29-1857 Wirt county Elias Richards married Martha Polly Sprouse 2-20-1868 Wood county Mary Richards married Ephraim Jackson Vaught 3-9-1859 Wirt county Evaline Richards married Samuel Edwards 5-17-1860 Wirt county Emily Richards married Sylvester James Noland 10-3-1861 Washington county Dovenor Richards married Sarah Boice 1879 Wirt county Druscilla and Mary's children ended up in Athens county, Ohio by 1900 and then around US. Sandy Quinn webmaster of Athens county, OHGenweb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohathens