>Seeking parents or siblings or other descendents of Jacob Boyington (or >Boynton) who died in Ionia Co., MI before 1860. He and his wife were born in >PA (or NY) according to census records. Most of their children were born in >Ohio but they are found in 1850 Michigan census of Ionia Co where he is >listed as Jacob Boynton. By the 1860 Jacob had died. My husband is descended >from his daughter Cecilia, who married Pellington Buxton in Ionia Co, MI, >about 1858. > >Descendants of Jacob Boyington (Boynton) > > 1 Jacob Boyington b: Abt. 1797 Pennsylvania d: Bef. 1860 Ionia Co., >Michigan >. +Candis Skinner b: 1806 Pennsylvania m: Bef. 1835 d: Sep 29, 1882 Ionia >Co., MI <snip> The 1897 Boynton genealogy doesn't have anyone with these vitals, not even under any of the alternate spellings, sorry. There is an Elijah Boyton b. 1797 in Reading, PA who had a son named Jacob, but that's as close as it gets, I'm afraid. I looked under Skinner, too, and while there were two individuals with that surname, neither was your Candis. Katherine Katherine Watson Cochrane <katherine@cd-info.com> -------------------------------------------------- Surnames researching: Alexander Alleine Anderson Boynton Cashion Dresser Everard Ickes Hackworth Hughes Keith Kidder Kress Latham Mangrum Meade Osborn(e) Pennington Phillips Ralston Renegar/Renninger Rutherford Shockley Shores Snow Starling Stewart Sugg(s) Walker Wallace Watson Wills York ++++ Genealogy Website http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kwc ++++