This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iEB.2ACE/26.0.261.335.446.464 Message Board Post: Yes I can... That man was my Grandfather and his birth name was Elisha Edmund Messick He went by the name Edward later in his life He is buried at Bloomery Methodist church..Smithville, MD His bothers and paents are also buried out there along with my father. He....... his father was Edmund M. Messick his mother was Mary Collins Edmund M. Messick parents are Isaac Messick Lydia Hastings Sister to Edmund is ...Hester A. born..1843 Mimmie...was her nickname...her real name by birth was Mary Mitilda Hignutt her parents were...William E.Hignutt & Eliza Wright Elisha..my granfather had these children..1st marriage to Elsie Bell Hignutt.....divorced 1908..william Messick ..born 1899 remarried to my grandmother Mimmie in 1911 children were ...Holly Elizabeth 1906...Clifford... Ethel...John..1919...Martin... Edmund M. Messick was born 1842 married in 1865 after he was in the civil war...Have his papers wife Mary L. Collins and him had these children Lidia 1867 Elisha E. 1869 George Henry W. 1871 Lorine 1874 Isaac 1876 Deliah L. 1878 William H. 1881 died 1904 James E. 1884 I hope this helps some are you related to any of them ? I KNOW THESE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT !!! They lived for awhile in Delaware but mainly lived near Federalsburg, MD PS Most of the Hignutts and theMessicks I told youabout are buried at Bloomery Jean