Hello Robert, Thanks for the info about that book confirming the Sheriff aspect of Gideon Holliday's Life. I only learned he was my ancestor a few months ago. What little I know of him is in the book A HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY INDIANA and THE WABASH VALLEY etc. His son Ambrose S. Holliday and a brother or two moved to Indiana after Gideon's death. Martha Coon Holliday moved to Ohio. There were supposed to be 13 kids. I am only sure about 3 of them. I still do not understand the mentioning of a congressional stint unless the person taking the biographical information mixed up the information that Ambrose may have given about what may have been a first cousin name Elias Selah Holliday who was a US Congressman. All the Hollidays in West Indiana seemed to have migrated there from New York. There was another family of HOllidays in East Indiana that seemed to have come up from Virginia. They are the ones that seem to be related to the family of presidents George Bush and Son. j But thanks for the info. very little bit helps. Martha Coon I have no other info on at all. No idea of when they were married. It had to be somewhere near Duanesburg and Scoharie or Albany or some such. My Holliday lineage has been very frustrating for years and now I have made all these breakthroughs in the past year alone. It has been great since these are my mothers lines and I knew very little most of my life about my mothers family, because she knew very little about them. But with the internet and a handful of clues I have been able to find out a lot in a short space of time. Sheriffs had to be elected I presume, so there may be newspaper accounts of his running for Sheriff and they might mention his origens and his wifes and stuff. Well thanks again for that next clue. Barb Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 5:49:48 PM, you wrote: >> I am new to this list, I think. My 3- great grandfathers name was >> Gideon Holliday. He lived in and around Schenectady most of his >> life. He had to have been there by 1790 as his father was there on >> the 1790 census, His parents were Samuel Holliday and Sarah Joslyn. >> They moved there from Tyringham, Mass. I suspect Gideon would have >> been born there around 1879 1880. He died in 1829 in Schenectady. >> His death notice was in the Schenectady Cabinet News paper. Gideon >> married Martha Coon from that area. I do not know when or where >> they married only that they did. I have that information from a >> biography about the family in a book on the history of Fountain >> County Indiana. The information I have is that Gideon was the >> Sheriff of Schenectady county as well as a Justice of the Peace, and RS> Howell and Munsell's _History of the County of Schenectady, N.Y., from RS> 1662 to 1886_, p. 65, confirms that Gideon Holliday became county RS> sheriff in 1815 (the next change was 1818). >> was a congressman, though it does not say if it was US congress or >> state congress and I can find no record of him in congressional >> records. Only someone who is likely his first cousin named Elias >> Selah Holliday who was congressman from Brazil, Indiana. I have not RS> Gideon Holliday is not listed in the _Biographical Directory of the RS> United States Congress_ RS> <http://bioguide.congress.gov/> RS> although Elias is. >> found any information on him other than his wife was Martha Coon and >> Samuel and Sarah JOslyn Holliday were his parents and only that link >> through the SAR. I would like to know when and where Gideon and >> Martha were married. I would like to know who the parents of Martha >> were and when her dob was. I wonder if there were any histories of >> Schenectady that would have had biographical info on the Holliday >> and Coon families of that area in the early 1800's. RS> Haven't seen any. RS> Bob Sullivan <rsullivan@sals.edu> RS> Schenectady County Public Library (NY) <http://www.scpl.org/> RS> Schenectady Digital History Archive RS> <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> RS> ============================== RS> View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find RS> marriage announcements and more. Learn more: RS> http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx -- Best regards, Barbara mailto:firebird@taela.net