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/QFB.2ACE/87.314.433 Message Board Post: As recently as the 1880 census, the Frank KENION b 1868, as the enumerator spelled this family's name, was indeed living with the Dennison KENION age 49 family, Mary 44, Myson 14 and Frank 12 were already put to work on the farm. Ora 10 and Sheridan 5 complete that household at Thornapple. The younger two attend school. Put to work at 12 doesn't sound too happy a tradition for a man who'll grow up and raise a family. Who knows. There is another Frank KENYON age 17 living with and farming for the David TOWNSEND family at Hastings. It looks like Dennison has an elder brother Clark, 54, same KENION spelling, also at Thornapple. Both men are b. NY, both of their parents b. RI. There a good 6-8 housholds, either spelling, in Barry County that year. I didn't spot yours anywhere at all on the 1894 Barry Co. MI state census at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/state/orphan/barry/barry1894_census_h_l.html One other tidbit that may be useful some time is that DENISON is a NY-ish surname that goes back to a spelling variously TEUNISEN and variations up into the 1700s, I think is when it began being spelled with a D. You'll find given names Denis, Denys, Teunis, likewise, up around Dutch Reformed country along the Hudson.