Joanne Just for gigggles, you might check Ross Co. I do Shears/Bailey in Ohio, and my relatives lived in Chillicothe, Ross Co, Ohio, and later were in Greene Co. A John Thomas Shears, abt 1846,VA, died Jul 7, 1909, has as his parents Wm. Shears VA, and Lucinda Steel, VA . No E shown on death cert for JT and his sister Elizabeth Ann Shears, who are both in Cedarville Cemetery, Greene Co. Wm and Lucinda were from Hardy now Grant Co, WV. 1870 Ross Co.Census Steele, David 62 retired farmer VA Lucinda 43 PA John 13 OH Almeda 7 OH Mary 3 OH Steel, Benjamin 50 VA. 2 different spellings, as you can see, and to make your life more difficult. :>)) As an aside, have Miller in my Hughes line, Jackson and Mason Co, VA/WV. For resonable paid research, I would recommend Helen Ritenour <[email protected]>. She did a lot of Shears for me, and with her info I was able to sovle some unkowns. Nice lady. I too am looking for an early Greene county cemetery that have the grave of > John STEEL. He died 4 NOV 1821. He was born 22 OCT 1773. Would he have been > too old to be in the War of 1812?? He would have been 38/39 years old? > > He was married to Ann Miller. They had 9 children, Jenet, Ann, Margaret, > Mary, James, William, John, Samuel and Hugh. Hugh was born in 1821 in Green > County according to his military records. Does anyone know of this family? > > I can not find the burial place of James Steel/Steele either. He was born 23 > MAR 1811 and died 12 AUG 1838. I don't know if he was married. > > Any information of this family would be appreciated. I know most of them > marry in the area and almost all of them are in White County Indiana by 1850. > > Thanks > > Joanne Steele Johnson > Portland, OR > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > >