Dear Ann, I am at a standstill trying to locate the parents of my ancestor Samuel Hough; and as you seem to have quite a bit of information, I am wondering if you have a record of him. Samuel Hough, b. Aug. 1833 in PA. Had a brother Henry, both were in Civil War. (Supposedly Henry moved to Elmira, NY, sometime after the war.) Family story is their parents died in a yellow fever epidemic and they went to live with family (who were Quakers) in the Newtown, Bucks Co., PA, area. (They may have been living in NJ at the time of their parents' deaths.) Samuel married Amanda Shetzline in Phila. on 20 Mar. 1853. I have found no record of him prior to that. I have also found no record yet in Phila. of his birth, but we assume he was born there or in Bucks Co. Children of Samuel and Amanda Hough: 1. Emma (b. 26 Mar. 1854) married (1) William T. Raimond and (2) Harry A. Mershon. 2. William (b. 16 Feb. 1856) married ? 3. Samuel, Jr. (my ancestor) (b. 10 Sept. 1858) married (1) May McBride and (2) Annie W. Brinkman Teamer. 4. Edward (b. 25 Jan. 1861) married Annie. 5. Henry (b. 5 Jan. 1863) married Rebecca Rotan. There are many Samuels and Henrys in the descendants of Richard Hough, and I have been unable to connect him to any Hough family. Can you help? Nancy