Had a mini-break thru on my Lake Co. Indiana families. No one ever responds on this line but here goes: >Loren S. Stowell aged four, appears in the household of John and Rachel >Reed of Eagle Creek Township, Lake County, in the 1860 census, indicating >that his mother had died and that he had been placed with them. They were >probably relatives of Loren Lorenzo's first wife, Mary Matilda Reed. It >appears that John Reed died in the next decade, for Loren Stewart Stowell >appears in the 1870 census as Stewart Reed, aged 14, living with his >foster mother, Rachel Reed, who in turn was living with James and Emily >Fuller in Cedar Creek Township. They were probably relatives of hers. This James FULLER is James R. FULLER b. bet 1819-1821 Vinton Co. Ohio d. ca 1884 m. Emily LAFFLER. Emily has a sister Caroline LAFFLER who marries a Malcolm HILL. He is the son of James FULLER m. Lydia Herrick DODGE one of the prominent early families in Lake Co. history. I descend from James R. FULLER's elder brother Oliver FULLER who married a Sarah H. REED. Sarah had an elder sister named Nancy REED who married Oliver's father James late in life and had no issue with him. Oliver FULLER & Sarah REED had a daughter Mary Ellen FULLER who married Marcus Lafayette STOWELL s/o Loren Lorenzo STOWELL & Mary Matilda REED. If anyone know anything about these families, especially how to fit all these REEDs together, I sure would love to hear from you. I have the FULLER line way back to the Immigrant generation back in colonial Norfolk Co. Massachusetts. The following Lake Co. Indiana connected REEDs appear related somehow: John REED d. bet 1860-1870 m. Rachel unknown Mary Matilda REED b. (husband was b. 1795) d.1842 m. Loren Lorenzo STOWELL <<maybe connected to a Talcott REED of Sherman Twp. Huron Co. Ohio?!?> Sarah H. REED 1817-1874 m. Oliver FULLER <census says born in Pennsylvania, they married 1835 Athens Co.Ohio> Nancy REED m. James FULLER <his first wife was Lydia Herrick DODGE of Hancock Co. Maine> <Nancy REED the elder sister of Sarah H. REED, James FULLER here father of Oliver above> If you know any of these families love to hear from you, james wall