This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AUI.2ACIB/205.1 Message Board Post: Although you are evidently disinterested in the Chamberlin line, here is some Chamberlain identifying information from my research files for the benefit of other researchers. Franklin Luther Chamberlin, b. 15 Nov 1841, Cleveland, OH, d. there about May 15, 1916 [buried in Lakeview Cemetery], m. Louisa Snow Hamlen (date unknown), who d. 22 Jan 1912 in Cleveland, with three children listed for them: Louisa Snow Chamberlin, b. 17 Nov 1866, who m. Edward W. Moore; Frank Hamlen Chamberlin, b. 29 Jul 1870, who m. Alice Abigail Coleman; and Burt S./N. Chamberlin, who m. Marion Eleanor Coleman. My data are collected primarily from Mormon/LDS IGI records and from the Obituary files of the Cleveland Public Library, which contain the following record for Louisa: "January 24, 1912; Source unknown; Chamberlin - Louisa Hamlen, wife of F. L. Chamberlin and mother of Mrs. E. W. Moore, Burt S. Chamberlin, and the late Frank H. Chamberlin, Monday, Jan. 22, 1912, at her residence, 2227 E. 4! 0th St. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p. m." At the time of the 1880 Census, Louisa's mother was visiting Franklin's family in Cleveland, so the following listing will provide you with her first name (Cynthia), her age (born c1804), and the fact that her parents were natives of CT. Perhaps this information will assist you in tracing her. - 1880 Census, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, p. 142D, Frank L. Chamberlain, head, age 37, Variety Iron W., OH/VT/VT; Lavina, wife, age 36, keeping house, OH/MY/CT; Louisa, dau., age 13, at school, OH/-/-; Frank, son, age 9, at school, OH/-/-; Bert, son, age 6, at school, OH/-/-; also Cyntha Hanlin, mother, age 76, widow, visiting, CT/CT/CT Franklin's ancestral line of descent is unknown, but he was evidently the son of John & Sarah (Shepard) Chamberlin, natives of Vermont, who I've not been able to locate in census records, but who probably died before 1860, when Franklin and his younger sister, Sarah J., b. c1845 OH, were living with the family of Lucius Pitkin, and attending school. At that time, curiously, Sarah owned property worth $6000, which suggests to me that she might have inherited the house or business property of her parents. If this was the case, Probate Records in the Cleveland area should reveal more about this family. Please contact me via Email if you wish to discuss this information in greater detail, or if you have additional Chamberlin data to share.