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/205.1.1 Message Board Post: Here's some additional information. The Obituary Files of the Cleveland Public Library contain the following indexed statement from his obituary: "May 16, 1916; Source unknown; Chamberlin - Franklin L., father of Mrs. E. W. Moore, Frank H. Chamberlin, deceased, and Burt S., Sunday evening, at the home of his daughter. Funeral Tuesday, 2 p. m., from 11129 Euclid Ave." Franklin Chamberlin's mother, Sarah B. Shepard, was remarried, 26 Apr 1864, to Lucius M. Pitkin, b. 17 May 1825, Marshfield, Washington Co., VT, son of Dudley & Nancy (Batchelder) Pitkin. They are listed in the 1880 Census, as follows: - 1880 Census, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, p. 28C, Lucius M. Pitkins, age 55, manger iron works, VT/VT/VT; Sarah B. Pitkins, wife, keeping house, age 62, VT/VT/VT; Ina F. Pitkins, dau., single, age 18, at home, OH/VT/VT; Dudley Pitkins, father, widowed, age 81, at home, VT/VT/VT; Martha Pitkins, sister, single, age 53, at home, VT/VT/VT; also, Susan Collin, relationship "other", single, age 25, servant, IRE/IRE/IRE. So, this information shows that Franklin's mother Sarah B. Shepard, was born c1818, VT, and her parents were natives of Vermont. The IGI lists a marriage of John F. Chamberlin and Sarah B. Shepard, 3 Oct 1840, Foxboro, Norfolk Co., MA, which appears to be this same family - probably the parents of Franklin, who was born 13 months later in Cleveland. Lastly, in 1870, there was a Hamlin family living right next door to Franklin Chamberlin: - 1870 Census, Cleveland, Ward 4, Cuyahoga Co., OH, p. 437, #1796/1785, 6 Aug 1870, Hny? H. Hamlin, age 34, Patent Rgt. Agt., $2000, b. OH, Citizen; Jennie, age 30, k. house, b. OH; Fannie, age 6, b. OH; Marie, age 3, b. OH; Heny? S., age 1, b. OH; also Alfred Pearson, age 33, Ret. Dry Goods, $4000b. MA, U. S. Citizen; Sarah Pearson, age 72, b. MA; also Molog? Brodg--?, female, age 32, H. Servant, b. IRE, illiterate, parents of foreign birth Perhaps some of this additional identifying information will be helpful.