This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ATHERTON, COUCH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRB.2ACE/1413 Message Board Post: Online 31 Dec 1891 Ticonderoga Sentinel Local Note reads in part: "Pell Atherton, Maquokota, Iowa, is spending a few days in town, the guest of W.J. Smith. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Cephas Atherton, used to keep the Alexandria hotel at the Upper Falls, and his father, A.P. Atherton, was born there....Later, after Cephas Atherton's death, his widow, Louisa Atherton, kept the Pavillion hotel at Fort Ticonderoga from 1844 to 1848 (the Pavillion was a local summer dinner spot)...." Looking for connection Cephas Atherton mentioned here to Peter Atherton 1787MA-1864IL (In Essex Co. abt. 1805-1845, then IL).