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/mFB.2ACE/2309.3 Message Board Post: I too am looking for the ancestors of a HOWARD family living in Lenawee Co. in 1850 & 1860. John W. HOWARD and Deborah Jane (POMEROY) with four sons. I have John's Civil War Pension file. In it he says he was born in Cincinnatti, OH in 1832, that he ran away from home after his father re-married upon the death of his father, and that his family was "always from Michigan". I finally found him in IL in the 1870 census, and in MO in 1880. Three of his sons names correspond to the sons of a Henry HOWARD of Kalamazoo Co. but ten years offset in ages. I have been unable to make any ties with other HOWARDS in Lenawee or other surrounding counties. I somehow believe that they came from NY state. Richard C. "Dick" Webber at [email protected]