Thanks so very much for all your information. I will follow up on it, especially the one at Dover. I noticed that some of the Osborne's spell it Osburn or Osborn, etc. I bet that the one that you went to school with is a distant relative. Again, many thanks! Larry

Larry, In Scioto County, Ohio, where I live, I'm acquainted with a lady whose mother's family was from Greenup and Lewis County, KY (both of which were once part of Mason County). Their name was Orsbun, sometimes Orsben. Guess what? When she traced the family back, she found out that their name was Osborne when they first arrived in KY. The locals mispronounced it, so the spelling was changed to accommodate the pronunciation. Here in Eastern Lewis County, where I work, the name Osborne, which is quite common, is often pronounced Orsben or Orsbern. It's something to think about when encountering brick walls in your searches - things aren't always what they appear to be. In Northeastern KY there are Peppers and Pfeffers; Shoemakers and Schumachers; Webbers, Webers and Babers; Farises, Farrises, and Fearises; Gallaghers and Gallihers; Browns and Brauns; Craycrafts and Cracrafts; Crains, Crehans, and Cranes; Mullikins and Mulligans; Deas and Days; Rheas, Reas, Wrays, and R! ays; etc. Sometimes these families are one and the same, sometimes not. Seabiker44@wmconnect.com wrote: Thanks so very much for all your information. I will follow up on it, especially the one at Dover. I noticed that some of the Osborne's spell it Osburn or Osborn, etc. I bet that the one that you went to school with is a distant relative. Again, many thanks! Larry ==== KYMASON Mailing List ==== Visit the Mason County Website! http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymason/mason.htm Be sure to bookmark it! --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.