Here's for all the newbies on the list. I'm still looking for the following: I have Iowa MASONs- 7children of Joseph MASON b 1786 NC & Sarah UNKNOWN b Jul 1797 in Buckingham Co VA came to southeast Iowa between 1850-1860. The older children were born in VA, the younger children in OH. Wilkerson MASON b 1812 m Sarah Catherine Anderson (lived in Henry CO) Anderson MASON m Nancy Davis (moved from Henry to Pottawattamie CO) William MASON m Laura Price (Lived in Lucas County) Mary E. MASON m Charles Davis (lived in henry CO) Melvina MASON m Edward Fidler (Henry CO) Jane MASON m JAmes Conner (Henry CO) Elizabeth MASON m Horatio Clark (Henry CO) Also Henry Hamilton sometimes last name MASON. He is either the son of Jane MASON first marriage or the youngest sibling (family story). Henry m Della Shackleford and moved from henry CO to Lucas CO and to then to Knoxville, where he dies 1886. Children of Wilkinson & Sarah are Jesse, Lucinda, Della, George C. and Horatio. Children of Anderson and Nancy are Joseph, Wilkes, Charles, Ida, Eva, Edwin that I know. Francine