This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAM, CHANNING, WOODMAN, CAMPBELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wIB.2ACI/261.2 Message Board Post: Made it to the Kandiyohi Historical Society research center in WIllmar. Nice collection & helpful staff. Make sure to budget enough time to tour the museum! Thomas HAM shows up as early as 1867, in the swamp east of Calhoun Lake next to the W. CLARK place. Apparently, their son Charles S. Ham may have taken the surname CHANNING sometime about 1890. Found many references to school teacher C.S. Ham and C.S. Channing of Irving Twp. He left the area after 1895 and shows up again in Washington state. Thomas went to Washington state with son Howard B. Ham by 1900. Not sure if Julia WOODMAN Ham died in Minnesota or made the move to WA. They likely attended the Methodist Episcopal services; would be interested which cemetary Irving M.E. members would have used before 1895. Daughter Sarah Ham may have married Charles L. Campbell (Willmar Republican Gazette Nov 30, 1882). Peach Campbell is listed as niece with C.S. Channing in later census in Washington.