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/1MB.2ACI/726.1.1 Message Board Post: I see no connection at this time, but thanks for the information. Ephraim Spencer the father of Edgar Edward Spencer was in California in 1877 according to his father's list of heirs left in records of Polk Co. IA and it is possible that there could be a connection. My Ephraim's father was Thomas Spencer b abt 1796 in PA, who went from Brooke Co. WV in 1830 and 1840 to Wyandot Co. OH in 1850 and then to Polk Co. Iowa by 1860.