Thanks for your reply. The 1880 census of Fredonia, Crawford, IN has Esaw
and Rebecca's family as Sarah aged 40 and teaching school, Kate aged 30 and
teaching school and John 24 and working on the farm. However, there is evidence
that he taught school, too. I think that I got the names of the three children
who died young from the cemetery listings. As near as I can find, only John
married. Family stories vary; some have John's wife as a student of his;
others have her as someone he spotted in church. In either case she was much
younger than John. This appears to be a family pattern that continued with Martin
McFall and his wife who were my grandparents.
Is there any way to find who Esaw's parents were or who Rebecca's mother was?
The census has Esaw's father as born in NY and his mother as born in VA.
Rebecca's parents are given as born in VA. Is it possible that the mothers of
each knew each other?
Thanks for the help,
Jean