One good rule of thumb when an ancestor "disappears" at an older age is to look and see if they are living near any children who might have moved a distance away from the family home. One of my ancestors "disappeared" after her husband died in Indiana in 1861. The end result was that she moved further west, into Iowa to live with one of her children. As a matter of course, I always check near all the adult children of an ancestor to see if Grandma or Grandpa went to live with them as they got older.
But once in a while you’ll find one who moves back to where they used to live, even if they have no family left there.
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