I have found a goldmine in a page of a Civil War pension application of the names in this family--fills in some blanks. One name is something like "Abjrcanus" , "Abyrcanus", "Absscanus" -- cannot read it! Could be starting with an H (Hyrcanus?); Middle name is Bames, Bemes, Barnes. Anybody hazard a guess as to what this name might be? One of this persons (I don't even know if it is male or female) named his child ABNER, so I'm trying to figure out if it came form this. Other names in this family born in Beaver Co. PA were Octavius Augustus b. 1848, Josephus Boyd, b. 1851, Mary Elizabeth b. 1853 (Lawrence? Co. OH; all these next from Meigs Co. OH Thena Ann b. 1856, Milton Josiah b. 1858, Samuel b. 1860, Curtis b. 1862, William Howard b. 1868. Nancy