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/Cei.2ACEB/460.468.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.4.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Fay, Wish they were my branch my own family name has been a "Brick wall" every since I started searching. What I have been able to discover is that my branch arrived in the US from Ireland probably late 1700's early 1800's, live for a spell in Maryland then Pennsylvania were my 3GF married. From PA. they traveled down the Ohio River landing in ? Ohio. This is where my 2GF was born in 1835 and he is the only name I have Ezra John Hicks. My next record on Ezra is in 1862 when he join the 79th Indiana Vol. Inf. and served until 1865 mustering out in Indianapolis. My Dad knew Ezra (his GF) and remembered that Ezra had told him the family moved from Ohio to Ky though I have found no evidence. I took note of your name Ezra married a Frances Elizabeth Clark(Clarke) from Shelbyville, In. after the war. Frances, father was a James Clarke(Clark) b. 1804 Manchester, Eng. and the son of a James Clarke.