This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YYB.2ACI/886.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: The books are: Historical Collections of Adams County Ohio by Thompson pub. by Adams County Historical Society and A History of Adams County, Ohio 1900 by Evans and Stivers pub. by Little Miami Publishing. I bought both of mine from the Adams County Genealogical Society. Website: www.bright.net/acgs e-mail:acgs@bright.net . It costs 12.00 a year to join and they put out a nice newsletter quarterly. One thing I think is cool is that for 10.00 they will photograph a tombstone, school, house or anything you want. They are doing this to raise money for their building fund. They will also do queries for 5.00. All of this is done only by postal mail. They have a bunch of other publications for sale. It is helpful since a huge portion of the Adams County records were destroyed in a fire in 1910. I guess the Society has the burned records and has restored what they could. Anyway on to the little bit of Cannon info. I have. The Thompson book quotes an article in the Cincinnati Post of December 23, 1946 about Locust Grove and the Cannons. It says the Old Cannon Hotel was erected by Urban W. Cannon in 1830 and he planted a grove of Locust Trees, hence the name Locust Grove. It says the grove became a big gathering place and many political figures came there to talk to big crowds from the surrounding countryside. It says L.M. Cannon kept a store starting in 1833. I wonder if it was one of the stores hit by Morgan's Raiders in the Civil War because they apparently ransacked most of Locust Grove. Does anyone know? Thompson further states on p. 85 that Curtis Cannon kept a tavern in Locust Grove starting in 1805 and carried on a tannery, the first in this region. The other references to Curtis concern things he did as justice of the peace. Of Lydia Jane Cockerill, wife of Levin M, it states:Lydia Jane Cannon, of near Locust Grove, aged 40 years, died August 12, 1860. No other dates about Levin M. Another entry from Evans and Stivers is a biography of a Newton Wesley Zile b. December 8, 1863 near Locust Grove. Father, Lewis Zile b. August 5, 1821 Mother, Caroline Cannon, dau. of Byas N. Cannon, a native of Deleware and his wife Julia Ann Hern, also from Deleware. I remember seeing LOTS of Cannon tombstones at the Locust Grove Cemetery this past summer. I'm not sure if my transcript of the Hamilton family Bible would be very helpful as the only Cannon mentioned is Anna Rebecca but I'd be happy to share. One of my cousins from the my William Earley line has sent me a family tree with many of the descendants of George Henry and Anna Rebecca (Cannon) Hamilton. I can share if you want. Robin