This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BiZ.2ACIB/293.1 Message Board Post: Your Ira Gorham was the son of Stratton Gorham and Mary Johns. I am working on transcribing the the will of Stratton Gorham and posting it on this list. Ira was born in 1840 in Clinton County, Ohio, and died Jan 8 1903 in Niles, Berrien Co. MI. He married Clara Hubbard 1 Jan 1865 in Berrien County Michigan. I believe Stratton Gorham was the son of Joseph Barlow Gorham and Abigail Stratton. Stratton was Joseph's executor, and an Abigail Gorham was buried near Stratton in Clinton county but that is so far all the proof I have of Stratton's parentage. If you accept that Joseph Barlow Gorham was Stratton's father, you can trace back to the Mayflower-- most of this line has been written up in this book: JOHN HOWLAND OF THE MAYFLOWER, Vol 1, The First Five Generations; Documented descendants through his first child Desire2 Howland and her husband Captain John Gorham. By Elizabeth Pearson White. Another researcher who has helped me with this line is Joanne Gorham, and I believe she has posted her GEDCOM on either this site or Rootsweb.