This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pryor, Newcombe, Siller, Sampson, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2FB.2ACI/1829.1 Message Board Post: Go to Ancestry.com, Message Boards, for Houghton county. There is a lot of information there on Capt. William Newcombe who was from Devon coming to the Copper Country in 1852 with his family. William Newcombes married a Pryor Daughter of Capt. Joseph and Elizabetrh Pryor of Horrabridge Devon. They are originally Cornish. John Siller of Ann Arbor, Mich is the most knowledgeable peerson on Capt Newcombe as he is a gggrandson. Yes one of thier daughters Emma married Edward Siller in 1859 or 1860 in Houghton, Michigan. Look into the 1860 census. All of them are buried in the Houghton cemetery. The Mills family doses pop up in the Richard and June Ross research files in the MTU Archives. Contact me on my e-mail jdrjer@hotmail.com Jay Rowe