This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILSON WILLSON HILL BROWN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QFB.2ACE/309.1 Message Board Post: Your post brought up a given name that's gotten my attention. Seba or Sebba. Put that with a WILSON / WILLSON, in Barry county -- I don't know how BRONSON would fit in. Check out these censuses: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/state/orphan/barry/barry1894_census_t_z.html Willson, Amos 39 (466) Etta,38/ George,17/ Jennie,13/ Maud,11/ William,9/ Lena,7/ Sarah,3/ Edward,1 Willson, Elizabeth 66 (470) Seba,24 Willson, Ezra 64 (456) Willson, Ezra A. 34 (456) Amy,28/ Claud,7/ Armina,3 From the 1880 Yankee Springs census indexed: Ezra D WILLSON, farmer 50 from VT wife Anna E 49 from Prussia daughter Anna H MILLER, 24, b. MI son Ezra A, 20, Lotan T, 14 daughter Sebba 10 (Anna's children) Ernist F 3, and little Alma L MILLER Nearby is Ezra and Anna's son farmer Amos J WILLSON 25 His wife Etta A 23, son George L 2 Amos J. WILLSON Self M M W 25 MI Elsewhere in the state are Ezra's brother Amos, and I suspect that over at Iosco, Livingstong Co, old Seth b 1799's their father and various other WILLSONS, probably a couple sisters too, stemming from VT but at this moment undocumented. This bunch arrived in MI somewhere in the span of 1830 to about 1854. There are Ezras and Amoses all over but fromparents not immediately from VT; I'm sure they'll connect but unconcerned right now how when and where. Onward. The parents later get planted at Bowerman Cemetery, Middleville, with only one L -WILSON http://www.interment.net/data/us/mi/barry/bowerman.htm The two brothers Ezra and Amos and some of their children at Yankee Springs cemetery http://www.interment.net/data/us/mi/barry/yankee.htm I think the kids, or sons, of those 2 brothers will be moving to Grand Rapids in the decade following their parents' early deaths. I do wonder how it was that their parents outlived them, why the 2 brothers died early deaths along with some others there in a span about 1902-9. It's too early for the killer influenza, I *think*. So you see, Sebba and Lotan, maybe Ernist, are probably given names by mama from Prussia, and surely uncommon -- I've done some searching on that 1880 census on CDs. Maybe Seba WILLSON married a BRONSON briefly then a GOODENOUGH?