This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pettinger,Parrish/Parish, Cutler, Kennedy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRB.2ACE/143.254 Message Board Post: Kate, John and Pamelia Pettinger were my great grandparents. They are buried in the Upper Jay Cemetery as is John's father George. Their children George and Emerill (Uncle George and Aunt Em to my father, etc.) are buried near them. Neither had ever married. Uncle George was an Adirondack guide for many years and Aunt Em taught school in somewhere in the area of Upper Jay. After he retired, he returned to Upper Jay and shared the family house with her. It stands on the remnants of the former Rt. 9 directly across from the Ausable River between Upper Jay and Keene. Melissa (Lissie or Lizzie to my grandmother), Aunt Melissa to my father, married James Cutler. She lived into the 1940s (in the Cutler house on Rt. 9 closer to Adams Center.) with her unmarried daughter Frances (Fanny) Cutler. There is a mysterious "hard lot" connected with her marriage. I have some theories but nothing of substance. One daughter, Pamelia (Millie) died as a girl in a tragic accident. Both Aunt Melissa and Cousin Millie are buried in the Upper Jay cemetery. I think Uncle Jim is buried there too, but the James Cutler grave I found is closer to the others, not with them. There were other children, but my father could not remember who. You do not mention a sister called Bell or Bella. (She had a fancier name, of course, but what?) She married Jerome Kennedy (called Rome), and they lived with their children (who?) in a large house nearer yet to Adams Center on Rt. 9 My grandmother, Frances Marian, born in 1865, left Essex County. She married Francis Eli Parish/Parrish in 1892. She had four children: Eugene Lambert, Miriam Caroline, Francis Henry, and, much the youngest, my father Carroll Ernest Parrish. I can give you dates and details about all of these if you wish. Frances Marian kept a pocket diary in 1887 when she was 21 and I have gleaned some facts from that with my father's occasional help. (He visited Essex Cty only once, when he was 14.) Hope this helps. How did you get your lists of children? I have been trying to find these. Ann