The instructions for this new mailing list ask that I introduce myself to however many of you were quicker than I was in signing up. So here goes. Some of my ancestors lived in Fairfield County from 1805 or a couple years earlier until 1866. It is probable that I still have distant cousins in the area. The first of my ancestors to come to Fairfield County were Lewis Seitz (1763-c.1822), his wife Anna Beery (1768-1831) and several of their children, including my great-great grandfather, Daniel Seitz (1791-1864). More children were born in Fairfield County. They came from Virginia with other members of what became the Pleasant Run Baptist Church. About the same time, four of Lewis' sisters and their husbands moved to Fairfield County from York County, Penn. Anna Beery is not the only Beery from which I am descended. Her cousin Isaac Beery (1777-1851) came to Fairfield County from Virginia in 1806 with his brother George (1773-1856). Other siblings and their father, Nicholas Jr. (1739-1812), came about the same time or slightly later with their families. Along the way, Isaac and George met the Cradlebaugh sisters, Mary (Polly) (1784-1850) and Catharine (1789-1870), whom they married. In fact, Lewis Seitz performed the marriage of Isaac and Polly shortly after their arrival. George and Catharine married in 1811. John (c.1750-1839) and Dorthea Cradlebaugh apparently followed their daughters from western Pennsylvania and settled in Fairfield County within a few years of the Seitz and Beery families. Daniel Seitz married Catherine Beery (1808-1904), daughter of Isaac and Catharine, in 1832. It was his second marriage. The first was to Elizabeth Hite. After Daniel died in 1864. In 1866, his widow and at least two of their sons, George (1841-1945, yes, 104 years) and my great-grandfather Enoch (1846-1883) moved to Greenville, Ohio in Darke County. Enoch Beery Seitz died in Kirksville, Mo., a few months before my grandfather, also named Enoch Beery Seitz, was born. The younger Enoch (1883-1940)lived in several places during his life, as did my father, Kerlin McCullough Seitz (1916-1985). This brings the Seitz line down to myself born in 1943 and a resident of Birmingham, Ala. the past 33 years and my son born in 1971 and currently living in Huntsville, Ala. If anybody wants further information on this line, please contact me. -- Karl Seitz