I'm sorry; I made an error. The Frank Woods Farm Cemetery is in Steuben County, NY. Wayne town and Tyrone town were in Steuben County, NY in 1800, not in Wayne County, NY. X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 01:40:10 -0400 From: VickisHarp@aol.com To: MIWASHTE-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <56CEB0C7.200F78A5.0D0AAA2C@aol.com> Subject: Re: MIWASHTE-D Digest V04 #37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I do not know about connections to the LEWIS family in the mid 1900s in Salem, Washtenaw Co., MI, though it may be likely. I do know that there were two racial groups with the LEWIS surname. The family I am researching has many members in each generation. They spread out to the counties surrounding Washtenaw. Eliphalet Lewis is one of the more unusual given names in several generations and may be traceable back to New Jersey in the 1600s. I haven't been able to make that connection because the records in Wayne County, NY in the early 1800s are almost non-existent. We spent many weeks there looking for them. I do know that this LEWIS family in Salem, Washtenaw Co., MI was associated by marriage with the following surnames in the 1800s PALMER, STANBRO, BENNET, PLACE, VANDUSER,RATHBUN,HAM, SMITH, TERWILLIGER, SANDERSON, LUND, HASFORD, HERRICK, McKINNEY, BROWN, TAPP. These are all the surnames that I have found so far, but there are many individuals to check out. Thank you for writing. Vicki