Hi Audrey, Have you by any chance contacted Robert Ross recently? I know he is working on a second book, and perhaps has found something of Eliza's ancestry. I don't have his email handy, but he is on the Ross-l list and has posted on the Ross genforum board. Kathleen Pantano >From: "Audrey Shields Hancock" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [NJUNION] ROSS-MILLER-DUNHAM-Families from Westfield >Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:43:08 -0600 > >I continue to search for my family connection to the ROSS family. > >In the book entitled: "The Ross Family of NJ" by Robert L. Ross, 1990, p. >584 my Eliza ROSS is one of the disconnected ROSS family members. Eliza >ROSS m Enoch MILLER, s/o Enoch & Hannah (BAKER/BACKER) MILLER. These >families lived in Westfield. Their daughter, Mary "Polly" MILLER, m Joseph >DUNHAM and they (Joseph & Polly) emigrated to Hamilton Co., OH along with >their (DUNHAM) children. Joseph is said to have died and then it is said >that Mary, as a widow, married Jacob MILLS in Hamilton Co., OH, but I have >only found one mention of this and no confirmation of this late-in-life >marriage for Jacob & Mary. Joseph & Polly had a son named Ross DUNHAM...my >ancestor. > >I am also descended from the MILLS family of Westfield, NJ, so I am anxious >to discover if this Jacob MILLS could be connected with my known MILLS >Family. >The MILLS FAMILY of Westfield can be found at: >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5096/ >Dave KANE's site under "FIRST FAMILIES" then "GENEALOGIES" > >The parentage of Joseph DUNHAM is a mystery also, as their were a number of >DUNHAM families of different lineages in Elizabeth and Westfield in that >era. >See: http://home.att.net/~davehancock/DUNHAMhis.html >It is believed he is descended from the DUNHAM (alias SINGLETARY) line. > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com