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Deena. I searched the data bases on
ancestry.com and in the Indiana State Library on
Indiana Marriage Prior to 1850 and could not find another marriage for the elder Samuel.
One of the biggest falacies with the censuses prior to 1880 is that family relationships
were not shown, so we never really know how these people were related. Mary could have
been a wife, sister, in-law or housekeeper. Don