Whatever Happened To . . . ?

BARROWS BRANCH	Related to my great-grandfather Ernest Barrows
Madge Barrows (Madge Birdine Barrows; Madge Hansen; Madge Hanson)	Descendant of my great-grandparents Clara and Ernest Barrows. Daughter of Clara Spawr and Ernest Charles Barrows (Charles Ernest Barrows), born August 28, 1896, in Illinois. She was married more than once. The last husband the family knew was named Johnny Hansen (Johnny Hanson?). Based on obituaries for other relatives listing relatives attending, she died or disappeared between 1954 and 1960. She did not have any children that anyone knows about.
BUSCH BRANCH	Related to my husband's grandfather Francis Busch
Frank Busch, Jr. (Frank G. Busch)	Descendant of my husband's grandfather, Francis Busch (Frank Busch, Sr.). Son of Frank Busch and Josephine Friedel; born about 1902 in Oklahoma. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he was raised by his father and his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Gerritzen. His parents and half-siblings lost touch with him after he left home.
SEEHAWER BRANCH	Related to my great-grandmother Mary Ellen Boesen Seehawer
Charles Boesen	Actually my great-great-grandfather rather than a cousin, but he is one of my oldest and firmest brick walls. The family legend is that he was killed by a team of horses in Racine, Wisconsin, and a form completed by his widow many years later says he died in October 1878.  His daughter (my great-grandmother) Mary Ellen Boesen was born in April 1879 according to the 1880 census, in 1880 according to the 1900 and 1910 censuses, and in 1881 according to the delayed birth certificate she obtained in 1941 (I think it's safe to say the birth certificate is wrong since she was not only living but a year old when the 1880 census taker came around). No death records were kept by the state in 1878, and I have searched church and cemetery records with no luck. Another cousin has gone through Racine newspaper microfilms. (Surely a man killed by a team of runaway horses in Racine in 1878 would make the newspapers?) After I found his wife Alice and his children in the 1880 Chicago census--with Alice describing herself as "married"--I started wondering if he abandoned her rather than dying. I found Alice and the kids listed as "Basey" and figured they must have pronounced "Boesen" as "Basin" rather than "Bosun" the way it is now. I searched for Charles Basin and found a Charles Bayson in Minneapolis in 1880. That one is 26 years old, born in Denmark, and single, living with another family. That person married in Minneapolis and had a family there. Alice remarried, using her maiden name, in 1881. He's a mystery at the beginning of his life, too. When he got married in 1874 he gave his parents' names as Christopher and Metta Boesen and said he was born in Germany. When his son Harvey was born he said he was born in Denmark. I don't even know whether his parents came to America or he came alone (or when).
Clara Tappan Cushy (Clara Cushy)	Descendant of my great-great-grandmother Alice Gormley Boesen Tappan O'Deal. Born about September 1875, probably in Buffalo County, Nebraska, daughter of Alice and George Tappan (George A. Tappan). Married Harry Cushy. Lived in Amberg, Wisconsin, until leaving home, and then apparently lived in Chicago.
Daughters of Rose Tappan Knickerbocker (Rose Ella Knickerbocker; Rose Knickerbocker)	Descendants of my great-great-grandmother Alice Gormley Boesen Tappan O'Deal. Daughter of Alice and George Tappan (George A. Tappan). Married Dwight Knickerbocker (Dwight Max Knickerbocker, Dwight M. Knickerbocker) in Amberg, Wisconsin, Aug. 31, 1898. Died in Hinsdale,  Illinois, April 10, 1936. Dwight died Oct. 27, 1945, in Chicago. Daughters' married names were Baird, Batson, and Hubert.
SPAWR BRANCH	Related to my great-grandmother Clara Spawr Barrows
Kenneth Peterson (Kenneth Ross Peterson, Kenneth R. Peterson), Clayton Peterson, Chester Peterson	Descendants of my great-great-grandmother Irena Neighbarger Spawr. Sons of Jesse Payne (Jesse May Payne) and Charles Peterson (Charles W. Peterson) of Iowa Falls. Born between about 1910 and 1920.
James Ross Griffith (James R. Griffith)	Son of my great-great-grandmother Irena Neighbarger from her first marriage to John Griffith. Born in Licking County, Ohio, about 1852. Probably moved to McLean County, Ill., in the 1850s, but he did not seem to be with Irena and her new husband, Valentine Spawr.
SPENCER BRANCH	Related to my great-grandfather Joseph Tyndal Spencer
Edith M. Spencer Sidney H. Spencer Herbert E. Spencer Leah M. Spencer Gertrude W. Spencer	Children of my great-grandfather's brother Jacob Spencer (Jacob James Spencer; Jacob J. Spencer; Jacob R. Spencer) and Emma Welsford. Lived in St. Giles, Berkshire, England.  Born between 1880 and 1890.
Ethel W. Spencer (Ethel Spencer)	Born about 1891 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; living in Leek, Staffordshire, in 1901. Daughter of my great-grandfather's brother Tyeth Spencer (Tyeth Angel Theophilus Spencer; Tyeth A. T. Spencer) and Lydia Mary Bryant.
Ralph Avens, Bertram Avens,  John Avens, Dorothy Avens, Mary Avens	Children of Hannah Esther Spencer (sister of my great-grandfather) and Frederick Avens. Born between 1890 and 1899 in Thrupp, Gloucestershire, England.