This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/2816/BUB.2ACI/1838.2 Message Board Post: Just on the off-chance this may be helpful to you-- My g-grandfather, Ross Burton Clay was an orphan who was adopted in Bloomington Indiana by a carpenter who specialized in building bridges. My great grandfather had two sisters, *Lizzie* and Sadie. I can not tell you much about them because he did not like them and one of the sisters smoked a pipe.