Good Morning to the List! I am a new subscriber to the Adams County list. Although I have lived in Denver for the last 22 years, roots are deep in South Central and South Western Ohio. At this time I am researching PAGE, BRANHAM, HOPKINS, FUGATE, DELLER, HOLTZ, ERVIN. My research has stopped with Benjamin Page and Amelia Hopkins. I know that members of the Page family lived in Adams County. Manchester was mentioned by relatives when I was young. I do NOT know if they are related because I do not know the name of Benjamin's father. There are several lines of Pages or Hopkins in Adams, Highland, Warren, Butler, Preble, Clermont, and Clinton Counties. This is the information I DO have: I find the New Jersey Pages', John, Daniel, and Abner Page in Clermont County, Ohio records (But no Ashiel). Father is Thomas Page. This branch of the family is believed to have emigrated to Adams and Clermont Counties through Fayette County, Pennsylvania. According to the Everts History of Clermont County 1795-1880, Dr. Andrew V. Hopkins-Host, Richard A. Hopkins-Treasurer, C. W. Page-President, A. Page-Teacher, Miss M. Page-Teacher and W. O. Hopkins-1855 "a member not mentioned before", among many others, were associated with the Clermont Teachers' Institute of 1848: meetings held at Amelia 12/26/1848, Bantam 11/3/1849 and 4/10/1850, 10/07/1850, 04/14/1851, 6th session-1852, 4/11/1853, 10/3/1852 and at Bethel 4/10/1854, 10/2/1854, New Richmond-1st session of 1855, Batavia 10/3/1855, 4/14/1856, Felicity 9/29/1856. Research shows that C. W. (Christopher William) Page, born 08-18-1822, married Eliza Jane Armacost 09-14-1843 and died 09-03-1890. He and Eliza are buried in Laurel Cemetery, Clermont County, Ohio along with Father John (b.09-08-1794, d.01-02-1888) and Mother Rachel Hartman Page (b.12-29-1796, d.07-07-1882). It certainly seems possible that John/Rachel are the parents of Juliana Page Edwards(b.01-30-1816, d.09-13-1896), Henry (b.1812-14, d.03-22-1857), and/or Thomas Warner Page (b.08-15-1817, d. 12-01-1900) although Ashiel b.(c1796) is also a likely candidate. C. W. Page is buried in Tate Township Cemetery, Clermont County. Abner Page b.(c1801), Joseph b.(c1801), Lorenzo D. b.(c1807), Daniel b.(c1804), are surely related because of the timeframes. It is possible, even probable that the father, or at least the grandfather, of Benjamin Page emigrated from New Jersey. Thomas Page of NJ is found on the 1810 tax list for Clermont County and John and Daniel of NJ are on the 1810 tax list for the adjoining Butler County, Ohio. And, of course, it is the father of Benjamin Page b.01-01-1836, d.12-01-1903 I'm trying so hard to find. Benjamin married Amelia Hopkins, b.10-11-1842, d.04-12-1937. When Amelia died in 1937, she was still living in Pleasant Plain, Warren County, Ohio. Both are buried in Goshen Cemetary, Clermont County, Ohio. Amelia's (a/k/a Amy) father was Richard A. Hopkins, mother Mary Dickie. Children of Benjamin/Amelia were Mary L. Page Leever, Ella Page Dawson, William H.Page, Leeander Page, John Wesley Page, George Page, Louis Page, Cora Page, and Lily (Lillie) Page. At the time of Benjamin's death, he lived in Goshen Township, Post Office, O'Bannon (USGS shows Warren County but there is also a Clermont County location), Ohio. Mary L. Page Leever's address was shown as Pleasant Plain (Warren County), John Wesley at Cresentville (Southwest Butler County), William H. at Pulse (South Highland County), Ohio and the remainder also at O'Bannon. I have the Death Notice for Amelia but not for Benjamin who is believed to have died at a hospital in Hamilton County, possibly Cincinnati. Unaccountably, nothing was left by the will of Benjamin to Leeander (or Leander), John Wesley, or George (although George died at 20 years old and may have been deceased at the time of Benjamin's death) No research has been done on John Page b.09-08-1794, d.01-02-1888 or Rachel b.12-12-1796, d.07-07-1882 because I have evidence that they are the NOT the parents of Benjamin. Information indicates that Thomas Page, from New Jersey, fathered Abner, John, Daniel, and Ashiel. Thomas is the father of John, and John is the father of C. W. Page. Anyway, C. W. Page is not reasonably old enough to be the father of Benjamin, but Thomas Warner Page (Buried in Tate Twp. Cemetery, Clermont County), or Henry Page among others perhaps not known to me, are likely candidates, again due to the timeframes. I have had better luck with the Hopkins and Branham families. This is so, due to a trip to the Kentucky "Genealogical" Center at Frankfort for the Branham's who I know originated in Kentucky, and to another researcher who gave me enough information on the Hopkins Family to take me to Miami County and the death record for Andrew Veneman Hopkins (If he is the father of Richard A. Hopkins, the family is already traced quite a ways back). This is a lot to read, and if you have done so, thank you. Should you have any information about these families, please advise me. I have some wills, burial records, census records, death notices and other source material which may be of interest to you as well. A Good Day to all, Richard Page