Back in 1956,at the Bethel-Tate Alumni dance, my old uncle,Ely Brown kept cutting in on me dancing with sweet young things. So, I cut in on him dancing with the wife of his own teacher of 50 years past, Myrtle Mahaffey Ashton. There came a time in 1957 when Myrtle's grand- daughter was thinking of a Prom date,and Myrtle Mahaffey Ashton nominated me. And I've been around women with Mahaffey blood ever since. Wife, daughters, and granddaughter. Lafayette and Nancy Walker Mahaffey had a large family in ne Adams Co,Oh. Too large,so that Myrtle was sent to be raised by the JB Holman family] [JP of Sterling Twnsp,Brown co] . Lafe was son of Zachariah Mahaffey, who died as cooper at Cherry Fork,just east of Brown Co. Zachariah died in the 1860-65 period,and most of his siblings joined his brother at Goldsmith,Tipton Co,Ind. I'd been using the year,1799,as the date Zach's Mahaffey grandfather died south of Decatur,on East Eagle Creek. I think I learned that from Charlie,or Floyd Jackson,once of Hamersville,on-line about 1992-93. We seem to have an expert on the Mahaffey's on [email protected] . I remember hearing of 3 Mahaffey brothers on Eagle,but not 5,and Mrs Black. Since that portion of Eagle was very involved in the conversion to the "New Light,and then the Shaker religion 1801-06, were there Mahaffey's in the Feb 1811 Shaker migration to ill-fated Buseron village,on the Wabash,north of Vincinnes Indiana? ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!