Posted on: Fayette Co. Oh Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Fayette/10238 Surname: vandines, houseman ------------------------- I AM NOT QUITE SURE WHAT COUNTY, MT. STERLING, OHIO IS IN. I AM ORIGINALLY FROM CLARK COUNTY, OHIO. MY ANCESTORS ARE FROM ROSS/HIGHLAND COUNTY OHIO. MY GREAT GRANDFATHER JOSHUA HOUSEMAN MARRIED CASSANDRA VANDINE AND HIS BROTHER ALEXANDER HAMILTON HOUSEMAN MARRIED HER SISTER SARAH V. VANDINE. BOTH GIRLS FROM ROSS COUNTY, OHIO DAUGHTERS OF THEODORE MATHIAS VANDINE AND FRANCIS SHORES. MY GRANDFATHER THEODORE MATHIAS HOUSEMAN, JOSHUA'S SON, WAS NAMED AFTER HIS GRANDFATHER THEODORE MATHIAS VANDINE. GRANDPA'S SISTER FRANCIS V. HOUSEMAN WAS PROBABLY NAMED AFTER JOSHUA'S MOTHER-IN-LAW FRANCIS SHORES VANDINE, BY JOSHUA HOUSEMAN AND HIS WIFE MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER CASSIE VANDINE HOUSEMAN. SINCERELY, THOMAS A. HOUSEMAN