This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ailshire, Sumpter, Dodge, Atkins, Elshire, Blythe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YYB.2ACI/1130.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Stephen Ailshire is my great Uncle. He was born on 11 May 1860 and died on 8 Aug. 1916 in Rome, Ohio. He was married to Ella "Eleanor" Sumpter on 13 Jan 1883 in Lawrence County, OH. Ella was his step-sister and daughter of his father Michael Ailshire/Elshire's 2nd wife, Elizabeth Ann Atkins Sumpter. Stephen's mother was Nancy Dodge. Michael and Nancy were married 7 Nov 1836 in Floyd Co. IN. Michael and Elizabeth were probably married in either Meigs or Lawrence County, OH. I don't have a marriage date on the latter marriage. Elizabeth's daughter Elizabeth "Lyda" Sumpter married George Ailshire, Stephen's brother in Apr. 1888. Lyda later divorced George for gross neglect of duty, refusing to work and lack of support. I am descended through yet another brother, James Nelson "Thomas" Ailshire who married Mary Ellen Blythe.