This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Doherty, Coles, Pearson, Shupe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TCT.2ACEB/471 Message Board Post: I have been looking for a very long time and it seems as if none of the thousands of descendants of the family below have thought to search for their ancestors. I have extensive information on some of the lines as well as many old photographs I would like to share. I have made many postings and still no response. Can someone help? Thanks: BENNETT1 DOHERTY was born May 07, 1834, and died July 05, 1888 in Liberty Twsp., Warren Co. Iowa. He married LYDIA JANE COLES November 18, 1860 in Iowa, daughter of JAMES COLES and MARY PEARSON. She was born February 13, 1837 in Oxford Twsp., Guernsey Co. Ohio, and died July 05, 1888 in Liberty Twsp., Warren Co., Iowa. Children of BENNETT DOHERTY and LYDIA COLES are: i. MARY ROSELLA2 DOHERTY, b. September 12, 1861. ii. RUENA DOHERTY, b. July 29, 1863; d. July 18, 1869. iii. UNNAMED SON DOHERTY, b. March 18, 1865; d. March 18, 1865. iv. LIZZIE ARMINDA MAY DOHERTY, b. May 01, 1867. 2. v. BENJAMIN PEARSON DOHERTY, b. April 21, 1869; d. October 22, 1945. vi. CORA DOHERTY, b. 1870. Notes for CORA DOHERTY: Cora may be the daughter who was born dead? vii. EMILY DIANTHA DOHERTY, b. January 06, 1870; d. January 27, 1871. viii. UNNAMED DAUGHTER DOHERTY, b. February 02, 1871; d. February 02, 1871. ix. JAMES WILLIAM DOHERTY, b. Bet. 1872 - 1874. x. WALTER AVA DOHERTY, b. January 19, 1877. xi. SAMUEL SMITH DOHERTY, b. January 19, 1879; d. July 27, 1956. Generation No. 2 2. BENJAMIN PEARSON2 DOHERTY (BENNETT1) was born April 21, 1869, and died October 22, 1945. He married LAURA J. ELSIE COLES September 17, 1890, daughter of LEVI COLES and HANNAH SHUPE. She was born 1874 in Cedar Co., Missouri1, and died 1921 in Warren Co., Iowa1. Children of BENJAMIN DOHERTY and LAURA COLES are: i. ILA ROSELLA3 DOHERTY, b. March 25, 1892; m. ABERHAM RITCHIE, May 03, 1918. ii. CARL WILLIAM DOHERTY, b. December 18, 1893. iii. CHARLES DOHERTY, b. September 01, 1895; m. JENNIE/ /. iv. BERT WALKER DOHERTY, b. August 12, 1901; m. VERA EVELYN WALKER, September 01, 1963. v. RAY DOHERTY, b. July 28, 1904, Lacona, Iowa; d. March 05, 1967, North Platte, Lincoln Co., Nebraska1; m. WELTHA EMERSON, February 02, 1961. More About RAY DOHERTY: Burial: Ft. McPherson Cemetery, Maxwell, Nebraska vi. ELSIE VERN DOHERTY, b. 1907, Warren Co., Iowa.