This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BARNES, HAZLETT, SHORT, DUNHAM Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1VB.2ACE/1041.11184 Message Board Post: This is Barbara Lewis, I changed my email address and didn't go back to check if anyone had posted on the BARNES family of Erie, OH, until now. Sorry and I hope YOU still have the same e-address. Our Nelson BARNES (16y b. OH) is shown in 1850 census for Margaretta Twp., Erie, OH, living with his parents, Ira (57y b. NY) and Eunice (57y b. NY) BARNES, also bros. Burton (20y b. OH) Ira (18y b. OH) Living with the family are two girls Margaret HAZLETT (17y b. PA) and Mary SHORT (11y b. NY). Since my posting in 1998 I have found and received a lot of info on the BARNES family of Erie. Would be happy to share. I'm wondering if the Mary SHORT who was living with Ira's family in 1850, could have been the Mary/Maria/Mary Elizabeth, that Nelson eventually married? Nelson's wife's name is shown as Mary in the 1860 and 1870 census and she says she was b. VT. Also in the 1850 census for Margaretta, Erie, OH, 3 families up from Ira BARNES, is a Charles SHORT 14y b. NY, living with the Peter T. DUNHAM family. I would be interested to know if anyone can identify this SHORT family and say what happened to Mary and Charles SHORT.