This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Barry_Ashby Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.ohio/7125.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Your post got me wondering about the ancestors of Thomas Wade Stratton 1883 - 1970. Here's what I have in my database. Please review for updates and corrections. Thanks in advance. Good luck with finding that photo. And god bless Miss Stratton for living 95 years. 1. THOMAS WADE4 STRATTON (THOMAS C.3, JOHN THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1 FATHER) was born 11 Jul 1883 in the village of Delaware, Daviess County, Kentucky, and died May 1970 in Indiana. He married ARIZONA VAUGHN TAYLOR 1909. She was born Abt. 1892 in Ohio County, Kentucky. Notes for THOMAS WADE STRATTON: !The parents of Thomas Wade Stratton are: Thomas C. Stratton b. 1859 b. Alabama, and Martha F. Martin b. Mar 1865 b. Ohio Co, Kentucky. !The parents of Thomas C. Stratton, above, are: John Thomas Stratton* b. Abt. 1817 Virginia, and Catherine Frances Peranich b. Abt. 1834 Alabama SPECULATION: The POSSIBLE parents of John Thomas Stratton, above, are: ROBERT STRATTON b. Abt 1781 in Virginia who appears in the 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, and 1850 Censuses of Cumberland County, Virginia. In 1808 in Fluvanna County, Virginia, Robert Stratton married 1) JANE HADEN b. Abt. 1785 and later married 2) UNKNOWN ADAMS. Robert Stratton's ancestry traces back to Joseph Stratton b. Abt. 1600 Shotley, Suffolk, England, and who d. James City, Virginia. !1900 Census of Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, ED 101, sheet 2 (stamped 26), stop 36. !1910 Census of Kentucky, Ohio County, Cromwell, ED 118, sheet 1 (stamped 71), stop 19. !1920 Census of Indiana, Posey County, Griffin Town, ED 46, sheet 1 (stamped 80), stop 8. !1930 Census of Indiana, Posey County, Griffin Town, ED 1, sheet 1 (stamped 1), stop 29. More About THOMAS WADE STRATTON: Burial: Green River Baptist Church Cemetery, near Cromwell, Ohio County, Kentucky Children of THOMAS STRATTON and ARIZONA TAYLOR are: i. THOMAS WADE5 STRATTON, JR., b. 1911, Kentucky; d. 1925. ii. LIVING STRATTON, b. Abt. 1914, Kentucky. Regarding John Thomas Stratton b. Abt. 1817 VA, the census record below shows his family as residents of Alabama. Also residing with John Thomas Stratton in Alabama are his nephews and nieces, children of his brother? William Daniel Stratton b. Abt. 1816 VA. !1860 Census of Alabama, Lawrence County, Northern Division, Courtland PO, page 65 (stamped 1055), stop 462. (See the family of J. T. STRATON.) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.