This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/7aB.2ACEAE/689.1 Message Board Post: Hi, James Nelson WHITESELL, son of Aaron WHITESELL and Lucretia SMITH, married Susan STEPHENSON, daughter of Samuel STEPHENSON & Sarah Ann SIBLEY. Aaron was born January 15 1798 in Pelham Township, Welland, Upper Canada. Aaron died in Yarmouth Twp., Elgin, Ontario in February 1870, he was 72. Occupation farmer. Before 1818, when Aaron was 19, he married Lucretia SMITH, in Upper Canada. Born in Upper Canada, Lucretia died in Elgin, Ontario in March 1873, she was 75. James Nelson WHITESELL, was born on December 06 1826 in Elgin, Upper Canada. James Nelson died in Ontario in January 1907, he was 80. Buried in Ontario. In 1871 at Yarmouth Township Nelson Whitesell, 44 Carpenter, (Index gives him as "Sheldon" Whitesell) with wife, Susan, 35, Methodist and children, Melvin, 18, mary E., 12 Nelly A., 5. On September 11 1852 when James Nelson was 25, he first married Susan STEPHENSON, daughter of Samuel STEPHENSON & Sarah Ann SIBLEY, in Yarmouth Township, Elgin, Ontario. Born about 1836 in Upper Canada. Susan died on 21 January 1899, she was 63. Edwin Vanrensaleur LEARN was born on November 17 1832 in Yarmouth Township, Elgin, Upper Canada. He died on February 19 1926 in Elgin, Ontario and was buried in Mapleton Cemetery, Yarmouth Twp., Elgin, Ontario. Edwin married Hannah STEPHENSON, daughter of Samuel STEPHENSON and Sarah Ann SIBLEY, on February 27 1860 in S. Dorchester, Elgin, Ontario. Hannah was born on 25 February 1838 in Upper Canada. Now, I know you already have the info below. >From the Register of baptisms, marriages and deaths at St-Thomas, starting July 1824 by Alexander Mackintosh, Rector and Missionary. : On the 9th January, 1828 : Samuel Stephenson, of Malahide Yeoman, and Sarah Ann Sibley, of Bayham, were this day married by me, by banns. Witnesses : William Davis, David Sibley and Frances McGaffee. Hope that helps, Esther