It is our understanding that the two youngest children of Isaac Edwin Lancaster, and Mariah Laughlin are born in Des Moines, IA . Edwin Lancaster, in 1858, and Alice Marie Lancaster, in 1860.

Daughter Samantha Lancaster married Ebenezer Herring in 1864 before the family moved west. First showing up in . Yolo Co., CA in 1870 Census
Esmeralda Co., NV. 1880 Census
Deaths in 1889 in Prairie City, OR

We just can not find them there at all. They are there somewhere if they had children there, and one daughter married there.

Also searching for the daughter Louisa Jane Lancaster. It is possible she never left IN as we know she married. We just cant find out who.

Nan Curtis