This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chesser/Chesher, Hawkins, Hill, Spurling/Spurlin, Eberhart, Amsden and more. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gYI.2ACEB/262 Message Board Post: I have found the parents of his 2nd child, James P. Chesser b. 1800 VA. They are John Chesher b. abt. 1769 and Sarah Hawkins b. about 1782, the daughter of William Hawkins and Elizabeth --?--. John Chesher married Sarah "Sally" Hawkins in Fauquier Co. VA in 1795. They moved to Monongalia Co. VA and possibly lived in Harrison Co. VA before that. John Chesher died in abt. 1804. Sally Hawkins Chesher then married Abraham Hill in March 1805 in Monongalia Co. She brought her oldest Chesher son, William b. 1798, James b. 1800, and her newborn daughter (?) b. abt. 1804 to the marriage. She then had three sons by Abraham Hill. This family of Chessers (the spelling was never "Chesher" again after crossing into Ohio) and Hills moved to Salem/Harlan Twp. Warren Co. Ohio around 1813. By the early 1830s, the Chessers, Hills, and other allied families such as the Hawkins, Spurlings, Eberharts, and Lees had migrated from Ohio to Shelby Co. Indiana where many remain today and in nea! rby counties and states.