This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHESSER/CHESHIRE, Spurling, Lee, Lemar, Dewitt, Eberhart, Stiles, Cowles Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gYI.2ACEB/252 Message Board Post: Searching for the father of CHESSER brothers WILLIAM CHESSER b. 1798 VA d. 1819 OH m. 1816 OH to Sarah DEWITT; one dau Mary Ann CHESSER m. Alonzo STILES in Warren Co. OH and JAMES P. CHESSER b. 1800 VA d.1858 Shelby Co. IN m. Sarah Ann SPURLING 1820 Warren Co. OH. 4 ch. born Warren Co. OH and 4 Ch. born Shelby Co. IN after moving there in 1834. James married Rosannah LEE LEMAR in 1852 after Sarah SPURLING Chesser died in 1851. He and Rosannah had 2 ch. Rosannah married Rice COWLES in 1867. The father of William and James P. CHESSER married Sarah (maiden name unknown) and he died before 22 Mar.1805 when she married Abraham HILL who was then stepfather to young William and James CHESSER. Sarah DEWITT CHESSER, the widow of William CHESSER married David EBERHART in 1824 in Warren Co. OH. I need to know of a CHESHIRE/CHESSER who died between 1800 and 1805 in Hampshire Co. VA (WV after 1863) or if marriage records, taxlists, cemetery records, etc. exist. Also regarding the town of Cheshire, Ohio in Gallia Co. on the Ohio River which was sold a couple of years ago to an energy company rather than their having to settle large lawsuits with the populace. Was this where Cheshire/Chesser families might have settled or crossed into Ohio? Does anyone have information on this in a family or county history?