This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shoemaker, Yarbrough, Norris, Borden, Barnes, Pate Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/620 Message Board Post: Looking for obituary or death record of John Shoemaker born about 1802 in Ohio. John died after 1850 but before July of 1860. Parents unknown. Wife was Elizabeth Dewitt/Dewett. Elizabeth died after 1860. They married in Montgomery County Indiana 4 February 1830. Owned a fruit farm, possibly apple orchard, in Mercer County. John and Elizabeth had ten children: William, Benjamin, Polly Jane, George William (my ggggrandfather), Elias, Martha, Harrison, Eliza, Sarah, and John.