Sarah Dolph

The happy couple Augustus Carley and Violet Sanford both (apparently) have a grandmother named Sarah Dolph. In familysearch she is combined into one person, with the following timeline:

1806: born to Stephen Solomon and Eunice Dolph (maiden name Lindley) in New York
1823: marries Batholomew Carley in Indiana (see post about Carley marriages)
She has her children Lehman (1824), Stephen (1826), and Eunice (1823) Carley in Indiana
1840: marries William Nelson in Indiana
She has her son James (1841) Nelson in Indiana
She has her children George (1844), Sarah (1845), and Mary (1848) Nelson in Michigan
1859: dies in Boone Co., Iowa
(or 1889, according to some family trees on ancestry)

We started trying to track her down to see if she is actually the same person, married both to Bartholomew and William. Hopefully the microfilm of marriage records we ordered will help: IA marriages, including her daughter Mary to John Sanford.

We found her and William in an 1870 census from Boone, IA. Several pages later one of John Sanford's brothers was found with his wife: a closer look at the other families there should help us see who their neighbors and family were. It was the Cass township.
William and Sarah also show up in 1860 in Cass, which was then located in Lura county. Their four children were all living with them.

Next time: look for census records for the Nelsons, the Carleys, and the Sanfords. If we can find marriage records for Sarah that will be helpful as well, and a death date on Bartholomew would be nice.

Herriet Louise Cate Carley: Death

We found a death record for a Herriet L Carley on 23 Aug 1868 in the Iowa Cemetery Records. She was buried in Bowen Cemetery in Exira, Audubon, Iowa.

Microfilmed Marriage Records

We looked at film 1034317 for Boone IA marriages, (looking for John Sanford and Mary Nelson in 1866, 6 Mar) but the film only covered through 1862. We are ordering the next one. (1034318)

We also looked at 1205173, which had the Marriage Records Vol1 (1818-1830) from Jennings county, Ind. To try to sort out the marriages of the Carleys and Dolphs.
We found out that Bartholomew Carley married Salley Dolph on 22 September 1823.
Also, there is a marriage between Richard Carley and Eunice Dolph on 27 August 1826. We suspect that Eunice Dolph is Eunice Lindley, wife of the deceased Stephen Dolph. The marriage was certified by Alanson Audacious, or something similar.