Thank you for the wealth of information. I have Mary Franklin's marriage to John Henry Parker in my file. I started this search by trying to figure out the relationship between my father and his life-long friend Frank Sullivan. They never explained how they were related and it was only after I saw the Jackson Co. marriage of Frank Sr. and Mary Alice Franklin that it became a little clearer.
You might be interested in looking at my website - the Watts Hays Letters www.wattshaysletters.com - some of your relatives might be mentioned. The letters were written between Missouri and California, 1849 to the early 1900's. Upton and Margaret Watts Hays lived in Westport and Margaret writes about many friends and relatives to her mother in California.