This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Watland, Evans, Fleming, Shaw, Playle, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fl.2ADE/1438.1.3 Message Board Post: In the book Past and Present in Mahaska County, Iowa by Manoah Hedge, 1906 one finds Margaret Watland as marrying a Knudson. Also in the family of Orin Clark Fleming (1843-1919) of New Sharon area, one finds a son, Orin Clark Fleming,marrying Mattie Watland. I assume that these Watlands are of the Jacob Watland family of Stavange, Norway and/or of the Ole Watland family of Norway. My links are to the family of Orin Clark Fleming (1843-1919) whose son married into the Watland family,because he married Elizabeth Evans, son of Hugh Evans of Prairie Township of Iowa. Hugh descendants are described in my recently published (2003) book, The Descendants of the Drummer Boy; Edward Evans of VA (George Washington's drummer boy of the French and Indian War.) I am seeking futher descendants of this Hugh Evans family. Can anyone help?