Linda - Thanks for looking all the Starkey information up for me. I will keep plugging away on this line. Am beginning to think that a Starkey family came to Belmont and both parents died and left several kids as several people are in the same boat as I am with people of this name and we all are getting no where. Jerilyn Jerilyn Lappin Koskan Cook County, Illinois jlktrees@aol.com Searching the lines of BECKER (Lee Co., Illinois), BREWER (Daniel of Indiana Co., PA & Belmont Co., OH, CLAWSON (Westmoreland Co. and possibly Indiana Co., PA), DYE (David & Lucy & descendants of Greene Co., PA, Eastern OH, southern IL) , FISHER (Joseph & Judith last found in Morgan Co., OH), GRAY (Ogden & Mary last found in Morgan Co., OH or Fulton Co., IL), LAPPIN (all), LEAK/LEEK (Belmont & Monroe Co., OH west and originally from DC/MD area), MITC HELL (Greene Co., PA and Monroe Co., OH), MONROE (Nicholas descendants all PA born, Belmont Co., OH branch), SMITH (Descendants of Aaron, Bucks Co., PA), S TARBUCKS (descendants of John and Ann of Belmont Co., OH), STARKEY (Phoebe, born PA 1810, wed Belmont Co., OH), STATES (all), TODD (Descendants of William and Rachel residents of Morgan Co., OH in 1850), WILSON (Robert & Margaret born Ohio early 1800s) and many more.

Jerilyn... My STARKEY ancestor eventually moved to Ritchie Co., WV. I just received information from the 1900 Ritchie Co., WV census. In that census both parents of Mary Jane Starkey are listed as born in MD (Maryland). [Mary Jane Starkey was married to Elias D. (Eli) Pickering]. Mary J. was born May 1828 in OH. In 1850 Eli & Mary J. Pickering were listed in the Monroe Co., OH census. They lived in the household next to Samuel Neptune. Living in the household of Samuel Neptune was Eli's brother, Jonathan Pickering. I wondered why Jonathan was living with the Neptune family and did a little bit of research (and a very little bit) on the Neptune family. Samuel Neptune's wife was Mary Branson Pickering, sister of Jonathan and Eli Pickering. I learned that Samuel Neptune's parents were from MD. ...here's something to consider. Maybe the mother of the Starkey children was a widow who had remarried ... maybe to a Mr. Neptune. Let's keep plugging... Charlotte > Linda - Thanks for looking all the Starkey information up for me. I will > keep plugging away on this line. Am beginning to think that a Starkey family > came to Belmont and both parents died and left several kids as several people > are in the same boat as I am with people of this name and we all are getting > no where. Jerilyn > > Jerilyn Lappin Koskan > Cook County, Illinois > > jlktrees@aol.com