After viewing early maps of the PA, OH and WV boarders, I am leaning that this is the correct Joseph French family, as specially as Hancock, OH appears to boarder PA for the 1800 map, and is the same county inwhich my Sarah J Hatfield and Joseph French where married. jfrench <jfrench1@earthlink.net> wrote: Interesting -- according to the census indices, the only Joseph French in the correct age group living in OH in 1850 is a Joseph French, age 15, living with Joseph French, brick maker, age 51 and wife, Margaret, 48. They both show born in PA but their children are born OH. Where does Joseph state his parents were born WV and OH? Have you considered DNA testing? j french -----Original Message----- >From: 24CHRISTOPHER S SCOTT >Sent: Jan 22, 2007 5:12 AM >To: french@rootsweb.com >Subject: [FRENCH] Joseph French born June 1833 in OH > >Joseph listed his father born West Virginia ( I assume then just Virginia) and mother born in OH. > Does anyone have a Joseph French unaccounted for? He married Sarah J Hatfield in Hancock, OH in 1858 with no witness, and niether families are located as well. It appears as they eloped as he 24, and she 16. > By 1860 they are seen in Wood County, OH near Sarah's father John Sherrod Hatfield and stepmother Joanna Bonell (Sarah's mother Caroline McMillen born 1824 in Williamsburg, Clermont, OH and died abt 1846 in Wood County, OH) > 1870 Joseph and Sarah and growing family are seen in Jasper County, IA, 1880 indicates the family now in Bolckow, Andrew County, MO and by 1900 Joseph and Sarah are living in Kansas City, KS until thier deaths before 1910 (Sarah) and after 1920 for Joseph's. > Anny info is greatly apperciated > Christopher S Scott > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FRENCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FRENCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message