More info from SewingGenealogist would help...but I got nosy and poked around a bit on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. :D
Assuming it's Eliza Jane McAdow, born ca.1830 in VA, and married to Joseph H. McAdow, I'm going to guess her maiden name is "Kerr," based on info from the following:
- 1860 US Census of Ohio, and 1870 US Census of Missouri
- Death info for son Granville H. McAdow:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N7JZ-8ZS- Death info for son Finley H. McAdow:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N341-7MPAm I close? ;)
PS: Also found that the "H" in John H. McAdow might stand for "Howe."
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9 May 2014: Thought I'd consolidate my three other replies so I don't look like such a lunatic, especially if the original poster never returns. I hope something was helpful.
1) Hm...looks like SewingGenealogist might've already been on the right track:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/28289112/person/12498593062I noticed that the 1850 US Census of Missouri referenced for her as a source might be the wrong one.
I wasn't able to find the correct 1850 yet, but the 1860 US Census of Ohio is at:
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=...The one I found for 1870 is at:
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=...I hope those links work for you.
2) I looked again at the 1850 Census of Ohio and found a possible match with a young couple in Meigs County, Ohio - Joseph and Elizabeth McAdoo. They're enumerated on the same page with others who spell their surname McAdow, so McAdoo might be a quirk? Here's the link:
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=...I also checked for any Kerr families that might be living in Meigs County, Ohio in 1850. There weren't any...but there were quite a few Kerr families in next-door Gallia County.
3) Last one...both Meigs and Gallia counties are on the Ohio-West Virginia border. West Virginia was still part of Virginia in 1850.