I am looking for more information on a Lydia C. Muir, born in Missouri in 1879, who married James M Rea in Chelan County in 1911. She was a widow of a James H. Muir, also from Missouri. She had a son, Robert, born in 1898. It looks like she was housekeeper for James M Rea (my great great grandpa) and then married him in 1911. James Rea died in 1912, leaving two children: William C. Rea and Evelyn Rea. Lydia was never mentioned in our family, so I am wondering what happened to her after James Rea's death in 1912.

I wasn't able to find Lydia or her son in Chelan County censuses, marriage or cemetery records after James Rea's death, or the Washington Death Index 1940-1996; I couldn't find them on the 1920 or 1930 censuses anywhere, but I was able to trace her first husband back to Scotland County, MO, and find Lydia's maiden name, which was Cox: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&...
According to the 1900 census, Lydia was b. Sep 1877.

Thanks for the detective work! I had been trying to trace the first husband back, but hadn't had much luck.

I found Lydia and her first husband on the 1900 census:
1900 CO-Otero, Township 2 Precinct 1, ED 80, p. 4B.
And I checked WorldConnect on the chance that someone else that someone else had already worked on the family.

Lycia C. Muir was my husbands stepfathers mother. He was Robert A. Muir. If you will to to the Stevenson Family tree on ancestery you will find the Muir family tree. Sharon Stevenson