I wonder what their origin is. I have information on Milton Hoskins who was born 1840 Washington Co., IA and had 1 son Richard and 2 daughters. Richard married my great Aunt Minnie Elfleeta Stribling and they had 4 daughters who were my mother's first cousins. And as far as I can determine, Moses Hoskins, Milton's father had one son, Milton and 2 daughters. But I know nothing of Moses Hoskins. Perhaps he had brothers who lived in Washington Co., IA and your Chalmers Hoskins was a descendent. Perhaps someone else on the list has more information. I did get one response which was very helpful. pat ----- Begin Included Message ----- From [email protected] Sun Jan 7 01:29:36 2001 Resent-Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 00:29:53 -0800 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sun Jan 7 00:29:52 2001 From: "Linda Carris Boswell" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [wash] [IAWASHIN-L] Re: IAWASHIN-D Digest V01 #1 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 02:35:45 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/19 X-Loop: [email protected] Resent-Sender: [email protected] Hoskins was still in Jefferson Co. Iowa in the 1950's. I think it was Chalmers Hoskins, but that is just from memory which is not infallible. The children went to Packwood to school and I remember one that graduated I think around 1954. ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library ----- End Included Message -----