This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chesser/McWhorter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gYI.2ACEB/188.2.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I responded to your message on the Rootsweb board, but do not know if it is carried to this board, so shall repeat it here. I am tracing the family of Israel Chesser and Elizabeth Stanley, who married in Greene Co., PA. on 26 Dec 1833. This family moved to Knox Twp, Vinton Co., Ohio in the 1840s. From an 1875 Atlas of Knox Twp. I note that Israe Chesser owned land adjoining that of W. S. McWhorter. Also, adjoining that property was a lot owned by J. McWhorter. Israel and Elizabeth Chesser had 10 children, one of the was William who was born around 1847. He married Mahalia Myers in 1865. William disappears from the census rolls in 1880. However, Mahalia was not listed as a widow, and we have found no death record for him. (Since posting this message I have received possible information that he left the family and did not die.) I have no information that this family came from Canada. One person on the WEB said their heritage was Dutch and Irish. However, I can find no confirmation of that. Do you know when your William first appeared in Iowa?