This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hFB.2ACE/999.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Try typing in Michigan County Histories in your search engine and then go umich site.Type in name search of Francis Nelson or Lake Cotton [Biography of Francis Nelson]. Deborah Nelson d Aug 15,1874 age 62 Yr 5 mos 23 days in Arcada,Gratiot County,her husband was probally the same town. The Lydia Tanner that I have was wrong one .Benjamin Tanner b 1795-1880,Lydia [''Lydy'' Sherman] Tanner 1797-d Aug 9,1880 . You can also get some Tanner ,Nelson Info at www.familysearch.org . I believe your Lydia Tanner and Lake Cotton may have died in New York . If your still interested in this Tanner Line they are buried in Birch Run Cemetary ,Birch Run,Saginaw County,and might be brother to your Lydia Tanner,My Tanners are also there but found no connection to Benjamin Tanner except through Myers and Robinson lines that married into my Tanner line.