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Surnames: Phillips, Philips, McCurdy, Keever
Classification: Query
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I've exhausted the sources I have available to me in trying to locate their marriage
record and am wondering if there's an index to Fountain County marriages for the
1838-1842 time period so that I can check under different spellings.
Susannah was the daughter of Peter Keever although some sources believe she was married to
a Barbery prior to her marriage to Samuel. She was born sometime around 1822.
Samuel's birth year is a little more difficult to pin down because his stated age
jumps wildly from census to census and I haven't yet found his death record.
They're hard to track down because I don't think they were married before the 1840
census, they were too young to show up in the 1830 census and by the 1850 census,
they're living in Iowa and have several children.
I believe Samuel may have been from Tippecanoe County, a brother to the James Phillips who
married Jane McCurdy there in 1836. I'm at a brick wall trying to track James'
father (also James) and am trying to determine who his siblings were and maybe that will
help unearth some elusive clues.
If anyone can help me, I'd be more than happy to reimburse them somehow or do some
research at the Ohio Genealogical Society (near my home) to return the favor.