Posted on: Fayette Co. Oh Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Fayette/89 Surname: ------------------------- Did some fast checking here at the archives and found absolutely nothing. However, my resident guru, Caroline Shaper, tells me that the Junk family is from Ross County. To look at a map, tho, will help clear it up for you. Find Washington CH on a Southern Oh map and find Austin, OH south of WCH. It is along Paint Creek and alongside the Creek, in Ross County, is where she tells me the old junk Homestead used to be. The Ross/Fayette Border runs right next to this homestead so it may be that your GGrandfather thought he was born in Fayette, when actually he was born in Ross. I would check there for any records. They are an older county (Part of Fayette came from Ross) and they may have mreo records for you to look at.