In a message dated 10/10/99 7:58:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jeannemac@worldnet.att.net writes: << I have a Clara Liter married to Louis Grooms 1896, also Maria Bond married to Jesse Bond 1854- she died on New Years eve just as the bells were tolling to bring in 1900 - it was in a newspaper obit in Scioto Co. Library. Hope we are working on the same families >> Hi I can't place Maria in my line, but find that very interesting about the time of death. I haven't had a lot of luck with my Bond line, my father is the last of his family and he doesn't seem to remember very much. Is Louis Grooms descended from Abraham b.1740 from Maryland? Most of the Grooms in Adams CO seem to be from our line. I just changed computers and still have to change information from my old one so I can look it up. Sandy