This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Knowlton, Lepper, Flanders. Tiedeman, Geary Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5Mn.2ACEB/302.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for posting that information, Mr. Chase. As a follow up, here is a biography from the 1948 Veteran's Centennial Carnival Souvenir History of Middleton: EPHRAIM H. B. KNOWLTON, his wife Anna (Lepper), their two sons, Hiram and James, also their two grandchildren, Thomas E. and Mary Jane Knowlton, came from Ellery, New York state, to Janesville, Wisconsin territory. Hiram bought 160 acres of land in Section 5, town of Middleton, on October 27, 1847. Later his father bought 80 acres in Section 4, on July 16, 1850. Here he built a log house and a few years later, Hiram sold his own farm and moved in with his parents, after building a frame house. Still later, Mary Jane, Hiram's daughter, purchased the old homestead and lived there until 1900. Mary Jane taught school and the family carried on the usual activities of early days, clearing the land, raising most of their food, spinning yarn, weaving cloth to make clothes, making tallow candles for light, and the women-folk even found time to embroider, hook rugs, and make candlewick spreads in winter, and care for a beautiful garden in summer. James Knowlton was a lawyer and later became a judge. All the family (four generations) are buried in Evergreen Hill Cemetery. The remaining descendants are Mrs. Meda (Tiedeman) Geary and Mrs. Pearl (Geary) Williams of Middleton. I do not have a copy of this book, only the Knowlton bio.