Would appreciate your posting any references to the above families from the histories you have. Certainly, these families show up in Worcester & Somerset Counties, MD; Mason or Bourbon Co., KY; Ross, Champaign, Brown, Clermont and Adams Counties in OH. They converge in the birth of Lulu (or Louise F.) HOPKINS b. 28 October 1878 in Manchester, Adams County, OH, dau of Franklin P. HOPKINS and Mary GUTHRIDGE (who may not have ever married.) Franklins P. HOPKINS was b. 20 January 1853 in West Union, Adams County, Ohio, son of William E. or S. HOPKINS and Eliza BRITTINGHAM (both of whom were born in Ohio to parents born in Maryland.) Mary GUTHRIDGE may be the dau of John GUTHRIDGE and his second wife Eliza GARRET whose families have ties to Mason Co., KY and Champaign County, OH. Cathy Brinkman