This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOUGH/PAINE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Jgj.2ACEB/553.556.1 Message Board Post: Ron, I am not sure if I replied to your reply the other day or not. I answered one and got an email reply back letting me know I was off one level. Oh well! I have been working on Benjamin and Margaret Paine Hough/Huff for quite awhile. I have most of the children and their families in my computer. Will be glad to share whatever I have. I have a scanned picture of Benjamin and Margaret Huff with one of their grandsons. This is from a copy of an old tin type photograph out in Donnelson, Iowa. My wife, is from the Huff Family of Iowa. Vinson/Vincent Huff son of Benjamin in Belmont County, Ohio married Lydia Early (Great Great Grandparents). Lydia Huff married John Randolph in 1869, Belmont County, Ohio and moved with Vincent and Lydia and three of the brothers to Iowa in the 1870s. Three of Vincents daughters married and stayed in Belmont. I have been there a couple of times and have seen their graves. I have seen Benjamin and Margarets stone at the Church/Cemetery. My next trip I am taking my digital camera, to ensure, I have all of the stones. Villas Huff, son of Charles Huff, son of Benjamin and Margaret lived to be 100 years old. His daughter Martha Goff said before that her father said that Benjamin was the youngest of 12 children and the lightest of 200 pounds. After looking at the picture two hundred pounds is accurate. There is also suppose to be Indian blood there. I know that researchers have said that William Hough of Loudon County, Virginia, will of 1815 had a Benjamin Hough and that he is not ours. However, there are some very strong arguments that he is. The names of Benjamin's children seem to fit the family with no problem. Also Vincent was (according to the family bible - which is never wrong-ha ha) born 1804. That either means that Margaret is not his mother or his birthdate is wrong since Benj. and Margaret were married after that. The Benjamin Hough son of Amos Hough and Elizabeth Wilson (one of the popular posssiblities as parents of our Benjamin) married a Catherine. He supposedly died in 1819 in Ohio.Vincents first daughter is named Catherine. Also (I don't have my notes with me just what is left of my memory) Margaret Paines mother name was Catherine, and didn't Benj. and Margaret have a Catherine? I'll look it up but after chasing this around for a number of years but I am pretty sure they did. Jim Stonecipher 18638 W. Geier Rd. Gurnee, Il. 60031