In a message dated 7/21/2002 11:29:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
jandsnyder(a)earthlink.net writes:
TOWER, Samuel - 48 - IN - IN - IN [Note: Married twice]
TOWER, Mattie - 57 - IN - OH - OH [Note: Married four times]
NOTE: Samuel and Mattie have been married for 3 years
If Samuel and his parents were born in Indiana, then they would likely be on
the 1870 census....perhaps he had married by 1880? Using an index for all
the state of Indiana would locate where Tower(s) families lived.
Another method is to use the Indiana State Marriage Index...even though it's
pre 1850, it sometimes helps identify the counties in which people of that
surname resided. I did a marriage search and came up with the follow Tower(s)
(see below). You might query these counties (Ripley, Crawford, Dearborn,
Switzerland, Ohio) for help too.
Michele
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624422&-find=">TOWER
</A>
ABIGAL
WEST
WILLIAM
Crawford
9-22-1825
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624423&-find=">TOWER</A>
ABRAHAM B
LYNTCH
DELILA
Crawford
12-26-1820
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624424&-find=">TOWER
</A>
ALFRED M.
NEALL
ALMIRA M.
Ohio
6-5-1845
DAVID EVANS, M.G.
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624425&-find=">TOWER
</A>
AMANDA
ELLIS
HEZEKIAH
Dearborn
10-2-1832
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624426&-find=">TOWER
</A>
CHARLES W
ROGERS
ELIZABETH
Crawford
7-26-1845
LICENSE
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624427&-find=">TOWER</A>
CINDERELLA
STICKEL
GEORGE
Ripley
2-5-1846
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624428&-find=">TOWER
</A>
DANIEL
BLACKSTONE
RISPAR
Ripley
6-6-1842
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624430&-find=">TOWER
</A>
GIDEON
WALTZ
SUSAN
Switzerland
10-30-1849
&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624431&-find=">TOWER
</A>
HARIET N
BULLINGTON
DANIEL
Crawford
9-21-1839
LICENSE
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624432&-find=">TOWER
</A>
HULL
ETSON
SARAH
Crawford
11-21-1821
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624433&-find=">TOWER</A>
JOHN
LEMON
ESTER
Dearborn
3-5-1840
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624434&-find=">TOWER
</A>
JOHN G
FRENCH
MARY ANN
Dearborn
9-2-1837
LIC
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624435&-find=">TOWER
</A>
JOHN Z
GUICE
LUCINDA
Dearborn
6-2-1833
BK 2 P 421
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624436&-find=">TOWER
</A>
JONATHAN W
MONROE
SARAH
Crawford
2-27-1831
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624437&-find=">TOWER</A>
JULIAN OR JULYAN
PATRICK
ANDREW J.
Crawford
2-12-1837
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624438&-find=">TOWER
</A>
MATHEW
HANDY
NANCY
Crawford
9-17-1834
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624439&-find=">TOWER
</A>
MERCY
KING
OCAZDIES
Ripley
4-30-1846
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624440&-find=">TOWER
</A>
NANCY JANE
SCOTT
WALTER
Crawford
10-23-1844
LICENSE
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624441&-find=">TOWER
</A>
NE HEMIAH
POPE
ELIZABETH
Crawford
8-6-1832
LIC.
<A
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</A>
ROXANNA
MUNGER
FREEMAN
Dearborn
12-26-1841
&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624443&-find=">TOWER
</A>
SARAH
TAYLOR
JOSEPH
Ripley
9-11-1849
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624444&-find=">TOWER
</A>
SYLVANUS
SHELDON
HULDAH M
Ripley
2-16-1848
<A
HREF="http://199.8.200.90:591/FMPro?-db=s-t&-format=marriage%2fdetails.html&-lay=data%20entry&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20last%20Name&-sortfield=Bride%3b%20Groom%20First%20Name&bride%3b%20groom%20last%20name=tower&-recid=12624445&-find=">TOWER
</A>
VELINA
TRUE
BENJAMIN G
Ripley
2-18-1848