Hi, Guyanoga1, Thank you for your post about Lavina Barse. I have been looking in the meantime in Ancestry databases, familysearch.org, and message boards, trying to figure out who she is, but have had no luck. I am quite sure she must be related to my Barse family. What seems *possible *to me is that she could be one of the three *unfound* children of eight of my 4x greatgrandparents John and Betsey Barse. The general age is right - my 3x greatgrandfather William B. Barse was born about 1824 in either Farmington, Ontario County or Milo, Yates County. Another sibling, Rebecca Barse, was born 1814 and married/lived in Penn Yan (married Abraham Wagener). I have had no luck finding actual birth records for any of them. It also seems possible that the missing letter in Lavina Barse's husband's name in the marriage entry was "M," making him Warren Mills. Much of my branch of the BARSE family moved en masse to Olean, Cattaraugus County. I have found a Warren Mills there in a history of Olean who ran for office during the same era that Barse sibling C.V.B. Barse was a leading businessman there. Also, in 1834, in Lucas County, Ohio, a John Barse bought property next to a Warren Mills. The only census record I find for Warren and Lavina Mills is 1850 in Olean, Cattaraugus County. They have one child at this time, Henry H. (I think it's an "H"), whom I have not found in any family trees. There was a *Lovina* Margaret Barse, b. 1 May 1832 in Herkimer County, child of Nathaniel Barse and Margaret Helmer. At first I thought this was the person you wrote of, but realized when I checked my database that she was born the same year that *Lavina *was married. Could you please tell me the source book for the marriage reference? If anyone else has any information on Lavina BARSE or Warren MILLS, I'd appreciate it. Thanks again, Guyanoga1. [For general interest: the reference to Rev. Mr. Adgate, I have learned, is for a Chester V. Adgate, Methodist Episcopal minister in Penn Yan 1831-1832. He apparently died 4 Feb 1833.] Lorraine Allrelated > > > Author: Guyanoga1 > Surnames: Barse > Classification: queries > > Message Board Post: > > This is not one of the names you listed, but Barse is not all that common. > I came across the following today in the Western Star, a Penn Yan, NY > newspaper dated Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1832 on page 3: > > Married - In Starkey, on the 13th inst. by Rev. Mr. Adgate, Mr. Warren ( > )ills, to Miss Lavina Barse, both of this village. [The Printers were > remembered.] > > () This was on the edge of the page and was illegible. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYYATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies." Iliad, VI.146-150, trans. Lattimore. So, tell me again, why the heck am I raking up all these leaves?