This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ASBURY HILL BROWN SACKETT WILSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ee.2ADI/606 Message Board Post: My deceased mother's family were born, at least a couplefew generations, in the mid to latter half of 1800s Michigan. While she could remember things, this is what I've sketched out. Her mother was Violet Mae HILL b. 1892 Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI. Violet's parents were Mary BROWN and William SACKETT HILL, both Grand Rapids, MI, guesstimate birth years 1860-70ish. William's parents were Thomas HILL and "Mrs. ASBURY". That suggests that "Mrs. ASBURY" was widowed. But it gets better: This branch of ASBURY are bright-redheaded and can't get rid of the red through generations, so she was told, and they'd moved to IDAHO. I drove through a bit of ID once in the 1990s and believe me, I had my eye out for redheads, but alas, I guess we drove too fast on I84! I found neither an ASBURY or SACKETT in MI 1850 census for Kent County. A good many of pioneer Michiganders in 1850 were from NY and VT, Canada, Ireland and Holland. By reading the household member's ages and place of birth one can tell that families were arriving in droves during the 1840s. It looks like some of "my" Browns and Hills were there by 1840 already. So now I'm trying to put this branch together with redheaded Asburys in Idaho somewhen before or later than 1900. Or maybe mom's memories got mixed.