Comparison Demographics of My Mary's
Year/Date	Mary Alice Marshall   (family lore)	Mary "L" Hess	Mary A Gibson	Mary Alice Marshall                (data from sources)
1861	b. October 1, 1861 Missouri from Grandma's obit and grave stone	b. 1861 Iowa from 1880 Worth Co. census		b. October, 1861(MO)-1900 census                                b.1861(IA)-1920 census      b.1861(IA)-1930 census
1862			b. 1862 or 1863 Iowa from 1870 Worth Co. census
1863				c.1863(IA)-1910 census        **per1900 census, grandparents married 23 yrs, making them m. around 1877. If grandma was 14 when married to grandpa, her birth yr ~1863
1864
1865	Mother died when she was 4, then Mary Alice lived w/grandmother. Later lived w/Aunt until married		Tempa Gibson died 9-15-1865, Mary would have been 3 or 4. Between 1865 and 1869-not sure who she was living with? Mary Johnson Gibson was still living, so possibly living with her grandmother? Aunt Mary E Gibson died in 1875.
1866
1867
1868
1869			Became ward of William Jesse Gibson
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874			Guardianship was transferred to Walker B Gibson
1875	If grandma married Grandpa when she was 14, marriage date should have been 1875, but other sources say 1877.
1876		Mary "L" Marshall married Paulus Hess October 10,1876-Mary would have been 15	Married a "Hess" between Aug 1876 and Feb 1877-from Probate records. Mary would have been about 14.
1877	Alternate marriage date		Guardianship was transferred to Larkin Gibson-but he finaled the curatorship of Mary's estate in July, 1877.	**per 1900 census, marriage should have been in 1877?
1878	Lulu Higgins born April, 1878			Lulu was born April, 1878
1879
1880		Mary and Paulus Hess living w/J J Gibson, in 1880.
1881
1882	Uncle Bert born in April,1882			Uncle Bert born in April, 1882