This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ailshire Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YYB.2ACI/1130.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Stephen Ailshire was Aunt Dora Alice Ailshire father. She was married to my Uncle William Robert Piatt. Stephen married Mary E. Sumpture. They are from Adams County. OH. Dora Alice was born July 25 1884 and died February 24 1963 in Portsmouth OH. Her husband William Robert Piatt was born July 2 1882 in Adams County. They got married August 1902 in West Union. William died December 26 1955 in Portsmouth, OH. They adopted his nephew William Edward Shaw. He was born March 27 1928 and died February 24 2000 in South Shore Kentucky. They use to live in Turkey Creek when they were younger. I use to stay with them for 2 weeks every summer. Aunt Alice always cooked the best pinto beans and fried potatoes. William Robert is the son of Jackson Pierce Piatt and Barbara Ellen Chamblin. They use to live Tiffin, Oh. I have been looking up Stephen and Mary Ailshire. William and Dora Alice are both buried in Rush Town Cemetery out by Mc Dermott, Scioto, OH that is by Lucasvil! le and Coals Park on the out skirt of Portsmouth. Most of my family is buried there with them. They are buried in the old section on the first row about half way up. His two brothers Mark (my dad ) and Uncle George and their wifes. I left Ohio in 1963. I can't go back there to look them up. If you live close, you could go to the court house in Adams County in West Union. You could probably find records on them. If you find anything on them please let me know. I am doing the family tree on the Piatts. The court house could tell you where they are buried at. Stephen was 49 years old in the 1910 cenus. He was probably born in 1859 or 1860. And his wife Mary E Sumpture was born in 1862 or 1865. I would like to see the pictures that you have on the Ailshires and the Piatts. John Piatt is my nephew that has been writing to you. Him and I are both working on the tree. Aunt Alice was little and short woman that always wore a bonnet and long dress. I loved her. She! was my favorite aunt. The last time I saw her was at my dad's funneral when my dad died. She died two weeks later. I was living in Elyria, OH. That picture that you mention with George and Bill are my Uncles. My dad Mark and My mother Grace Heilser. They were born in Green Township, OH. You mention a Margaret Piatt. George's second wife was Margaret Evelyn Deboard. Do you know anything about Alice mother and father ? We got a picture of Dora Alice and her mother that my nephew Floyd sent to me. I would like to send it to you. Maybe you would reconize it. I hope to hear from you. Betty J Piatt Mitchell